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COMPROMISES FAIL
p. 486
CH.14.2 QUESTIONS:
Millard Fillmore, his replacement, did support the bill and signed
it into law
COMPROMISE OF 1850
To Please South
People
Many
The
Was written by
northerner Harriet
Beecher Stowe
She
was the
daughter of an
abolitionist
minister
had met many
people that had
escaped from
slavery
The
It
She
Southerners
book
Passed in 1854
slave owners
from Missouri would
move into the state to
ensure that Kansas and
Nebraska would become
slave slaves
that Douglas
had betrayed them by
reopening the issue of
slavery in the territories
BLEEDING KANSAS
GROWING
returned the following month with 800 men to attack the town
Three days later, John Brown and seven men attacked and
murdered five supporters of slavery near Pottawatomie
Creek