The document discusses slavery in the South and key events leading up to the American Civil War. It notes that slaves worked on plantations, as house servants, and were sometimes hired out to businesses. It also discusses the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, both of which intensified conflicts around the issue of slavery and states' rights. The election of 1856 saw the rise of the Republican party on a platform of limiting the spread of slavery.

1. The Approaching
Conflict
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2. The South Slavery
 What slaves did
 House servants
 Hired out to businesses
 Worked on plantations
 Defense of slavery
 Necessary for labor
 Positive good for slaves by providing for them
 Science the Bible backed it

3. Fugitive Slave Law
 In the Compromise of 1850
 Word of slaveholder enough to
force slave back to owner
 Free states passed personal
liberty laws

4. Kansas-Nebraska Act
 Proposed by Senator Douglas
 Popular sovereignty determines
slave or free state
 Went against Missouri
Compromise
 Above the 36°30’
 Bleeding Kansas
 Huge struggle between people for
and against slavery