EOTO #1

Things I learned:

Pro-Slavery

Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. Kansas with slavery would violate the Missouri Compromise, which had kept the Union from falling apart for the last thirty-four years. The long-standing compromise would have to be repealed. They had to go through the Nebraska territory. This lead to Bleeding Kansas describes the period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854. 

 

The federal government was also responsible for making sure the slaves were returned and that this act was enforced by fine. The act was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. This is an act approved by Congress on September 18, 1850.

 

Dred Scott v Sanford was argued in 1856 and eventually decided in1857. The Supreme Court ruled Americans of African descent, sue in federal court. Also ruling that Congress lacked the power to ban slavery in the US territories.

 

 

Anti-Slavery 

 

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was fiction, people thought it was fake and full of lies. It gave the ideas about the injustices of slavery, pushing back against dominant cultural beliefs about the physical and emotional capacities of black people. Stowe became a leading voice in the anti-slavery movement, and yet, her ideas about race were complicated.

 

John Brown’s Raid, Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in an attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery. 

 

The underground railroad, the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War—refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage. Wherever slavery existed, there were efforts to escape. Over 100,000 salved escaped. Allowed slaves to leave and go where they want. Lead to the Fugitive Slave Law, was part of the Compromise of 1850. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.