I. Stowe and Helper: Literary Incendiaries -Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin -Convinced many people, including the British, that slavery was evil -The Impending Crisis of the South written by Hinton Helper -Both books banned in the South
II. The North-South Contest for Kansas -Northerners rushed to Kansas on voting day to prevent it from becoming a slave state -Southerners did the same thing, but they outnumbered the Northerners, making Kansas a slave state, and setting up a government in Shawnee -Northerners set up a government in Topeka -Proslavery Southerners shot up and burned Lawrence, inciting violence
