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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe was a novel that described the lives of slaves. She wrote it in response to the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act. It shows its brutality and its immorality and the emotional challenges that it causes. She argued that it went against the principles of Christianity, and it helped spread anti-slavery sentiment towards slavery and showed those who had not experienced slavery what it was like. Southerners believed that it lied about how bad slavery was. -
The Republican Party was formed by former Whigs to stop the spread of slavery as they believed that the U.S. was founded on the principles of free society, so having slavery was against our principles. Its creation was fueled by the Nebraska-Kansas Act as it allowed for popular sovereignty. The election of their presidential candidate in the 1860 election, Abraham Lincoln, sparked the succession of Southern states and the resulting Civil War. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, proposed by Stephen Douglas, organized two new western territories, Kansas and Nebraska, implemented popular sovereignty to decide if slavery was to be permitted, and it repealed the Missouri Compromise. It caused "Bleeding Kansas" helped fuel the Republican Party, and lead to more divide between the South and the North as each side saw how the other treated them over an issue like slavery. -
Bloody Kansas was a period of violence between pro slavery and anti slavery settlers. It began because of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed for the settlers of the territories to decide using popular sovereignty whether they wanted slavery or not. Those for and against slavery would harm and kill one another in order to sway the voting in their favor, in order to give their side the majority in the Senate. The violence helped to further divide the nation as it showed the hate each side had. -
