This is a study guide for Chapter 19 of American Pageant. Please read the chapter first.

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). …showed first 75 words of 2324 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2324 total…FAREWELL TO UNION *Secessionists who parted left for many reasons 1) tipping pol. balance 2) felt threatened by the anti-slavery Republican party. 3) supported secession since they felt their departure would be unopposed. 5) believed that N. manufacturers who were dep. On cotton would not fight them and even if they did that meant that didn't have to pay back their debt. 4) saw it as a way to cast away their dep. On the N. 6) feelings of nationalism 7) self-determination