HY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter 19: Preston Brooks, Freeport, Illinois, Millard Fillmore
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The kansas territory erupted in violence in 1855 between the proslavery and antislavery factions. In 1857, the supreme court"s dred scottdecision permitted slavery in all. Western territories, invalidating the missouri compromise of 1820. Harriet beecher stowe, who was white, published uncle tom"s cabin in 1852 as an attempt to show the north the horrors of slavery. The novel was published abroad, including france and britain. It helped to start the civil war and for the north to win it. Hinton r. helper, a non-aristocrat from north carolina, wrote the impending crisis of the south in 1857. He hated both blacks and slavery, and he attempted to use statistics to prove that the non-slaveholding whites were the ones who suffered the most from slavery. Most of the people who came to kansas were just westward-moving pioneers. England emigrant aid company, a group of abolitionists, paid some people to move to.
