A Study Guide for Chapter 19 of American Pageant

CHAP. 19 DRIFTING TOWARD DISUNION 1854-1861
The Kansas Territory causes violence between proslavery and antislavery factions in 1855. The Dred Scott decision invalidated the Missouri compromise of 1820 which had put a shaky lid on the slavery prob. 4 more than a generation.
STOWE AND HELPER: LITERARY INCENDIARIES
*In 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin in a protest against the inhuman fugitive slave law and utilized to alert the N. of the wickedness of slavery(splitting of families). She believed that God had helped her write it therefore it was another reminder of how the 2nd Great awakening affected the masses
oMillions of copies were sold due it being translated into diff. languages.
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