Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 18, Lesson 2: The Growing Conflict (pp. 450-456)
I. The Attack on Slavery
B. Some people assisted slaves to escape along the Underground Railroad, a series of escape routes from the South to free states and to Canada.
C. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin helped people learn how evil slavery can be.
D. More tensions were created between southerners and northerners.
II. The Battle of Kansas
B. Illegal voting elected proslavery candidates in Kansas.
C. Violence erupted between free-state and slave-state bands.
D. Finally, in 1861, Kansas was admitted as a free state.
E. In the end, the Kansas-Nebraska Act brought only civil war to the terrritories and increased tensions between North and South.
B. The Republican Party was formed which opposed slavery.
C. The split between the North and South widened.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. The American Anti-Slavery Society inspired many northerners to join the struggle against slavery.
A. The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed each new territory to decide whether it would be a free or slave state.
III. The Geography of Politics
A. The Democratic Party was divided on the issue of slavery.
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