Frederick Gaertner's Blog – September 2015 Archive (5)

Officially titled "An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas," the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by mandating “popular sovereignty” – which allowed the settlers of a federal territory to decide the slavery question without interference from Congress. http://bit.ly/1KOKtbj

Frederick Douglass was the best known and most influential African American leader of the 1800s. He was born a slave in Maryland but managed to escape to the North in 1838. Fearing capture and re-enslavement, Douglass went to England and continued speaking out against slavery. He eventually raised enough money to buy his freedom and returned to America. He settled in Rochester, New York in 1847 and began to champion equality and freedom for slaves in earnest.…

What was the Fugitive Slave Act? Find out how it made abolitionists all the more resolved to put an end to slavery. http://bit.ly/1FLQXFJ

How did the American Anti-Slavery Society deal with the issue of slavery? http://bit.ly/1g6iYAR

What was the Missouri Compromise? How did it keep slavery in check? http://bit.ly/1JIGlYG