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The Compromise of 1850, for example, was designed to balance the interests of both sides by proposing that slave trade would be abolished in Washington D.C., but to balance that part of the agreement, the Fugitive Slave Act was passed. This act required all citizens to return escaped slaves back to their owners. It also denied runaways their right to a trial. The Nebraska Kansas act also failed to solve the problem of slavery. This act decided that popular sovereignty would rule if a state wanted to be pro or anti slavery. .
             Abolitionists were everywhere in the North. Some were radicals, who would do anything to end slavery and its evils. John Brown was an example of this type of person. John Brown was a minister who was an active abolitionist. In 1859, he and twenty-two other men attacked the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown was caught and was sentenced to death. His raid only split ties between the North and South further. Many other abolitionists attacked the south before the war started.
             Music and Literature was as important in influencing people's feelings before the Civil War as it is today. Books like Uncle Tom's Cabin and Cannibals All really affected the view of our nation's people. Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, illustrates the horrors of slavery. It convinced the North that slavery, if not stopped, would be the nation's downfall. Cannibals All, by George Fitzhugh, was a counter attack on the Northern industrialists. It argued that while the South may own slaves, the North abused its people by making them work in filthy factories with very little pay. So little in fact, that some workers couldn't even find shelter over their heads. .
             Because of the Kansas Nebraska act I mentioned earlier, both proslavery and abolitionists flocked to territories. Kansas was a central point in the proslavery and abolitionist fight. There were so many clashed in fact, that Bloody Kansas became a nickname.


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