Harriet Tubamn
two opposing governments were established in kansas: proslavery and antislavery
(novanet) most crops were tended with slave labor
the whigs and democrats embraced the idea of popular sovereignty
They didn't want let let slavery spread to the western territories
Slavery was an issue that contributed to the event of Bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas was also known as the Bloody Kansas war.
it required private citizens to assist in the search for runaway slaves
William Lloyd Garrison
One reason that the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin infuriated people in the South was that southerners felt that it was an inaccurate depiction of Southern life (Stowe had never been to a Southern plantation).