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Act that forced officers to arrest runwaway slaves, also this act lead to the increasing use of the Underground Railroad.
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Stowe was an abolistionist who wrote this book to show how evil slavery was.
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Kansas- Nebraska act was passed allowing Kansas and Nebraska territories to use popular soverignity whether they wanted to allow slavery or not.
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Rufflians attacked Lawrence, Kansas which was known to be a staunch free state.
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Dred Scott lost his case proving that he should be a free man because he had been held as a slave while being in a free state.
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Kansas rejected the Constitution because the state wanted to be slave free.
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Brown was an abolionist who wanted to start a slave uprising by using the captured weapons.
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After being elected, South Carolina and six other states had seceded from the Union.
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The Senate refuses the Compromise because they wanted slavery to be put to an end.
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In the Texas Declaration of Secession it states "in all the non-slaveholding states, in violation of that good faith and comity which should exist between entirely distinct nations, the people have formed themselves into a great sectional party.
