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The Union in Disunion. US History. Objectives **Evaluate how the Fugitive Slave Act heightened sectional tensions **Summarize the effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act SOL – VUS.6 Timeline – 1850-1856. The Fugitive Slave Act (est. 1850). Allowed South to go into North to find runaways - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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THE UNION IN DISUNION
US History
Objectives **Evaluate how the Fugitive Slave Act heightened sectional tensions **Summarize the effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
SOL – VUS.6
Timeline – 1850-1856
THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT (EST. 1850)
Allowed South to go into North to find runaways
Jail (non-cooperate)
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Escape route to the North “Conductors” – led the runaways “Stations” – hideouts
TENSIONS RISE OVER KANSASSENATOR STEPHEN DOUGLAS (ILLINOIS) Seen as the next “great” USA leader Bring in Kansas as next US state 1853
KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT REPEALS THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE (1854) North says that vote is unfair Both States above the Missouri Southern
border
“BLEEDING KANSAS” (1855-1856)
Vote - 1855 Pro- and anti-slave factions flood Kansas
to influence the vote Pro-slave wins
THE SACK OF LAWRENCE, KANSAS (MAY 1856)
Mini-Civil War Violence between pro-/anti- slave 200 killed /$2 million property damage