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| 8147534841 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | A widely read novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1853 that dramatized the horrors of slavery. It highly influenced England's view on the American Deep South and slavery. It heightened Northern support for abolition and escalated the sectional conflict. | 0 | |
| 8147534842 | The Impeding Crisis of the South | Written by Hinton R. Helper, a non-aristocratic white from North Carolina, hated both slavery and blacks, gave statistics that shareholding whites were the ones who suffered most from the millstone of slavery, didn't leave impression on poor whites who the book was addressed his message, banned | 1 | |
| 8147534843 | New England Emigrant Aid Company | A group that financed groups of Northern abolitionists who wanted move west into Kansas in order to assure it as a free states | 2 | |
| 8147534844 | Lecompton Constitution | Supported the existence of slavery in the proposed state and protected rights of slaveholders. It was rejected by Kansas, making Kansas an eventual free state | 3 | |
| 8147534845 | Bleeding Kansas | (1856) A series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas who had moved to Kansas to try to influence the decision of whether or not Kansas would a slave state or a free state | 4 | |
| 8147534846 | Dred Scott v. Stanford | An 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave; Dred Scott, sued unsuccessfully for his freedom because he had been taken to live in territories where slavery was illegal | 5 | |
| 8147534847 | panic of 1857 | Economic downturn caused by overspeculation of western lands, railroads, gold in California, grain. Mostly affected northerners, who called for higher tariffs and free homesteads | 6 | |
| 8147534848 | Tariff of 1857 | Lowered duties on imports in response to a high Treasury surplus and pressure from Southern farmers |  | 7 |
| 8147534849 | Lincoln-Douglas debates | 1858 Senate Debate, Lincoln forced Douglas to debate issue of slavery, Douglas supported pop-sovereignty, Lincoln asserted that slavery should not spread to territories, Lincoln emerged as strong Republican candidate | 8 | |
| 8147534850 | Freeport question | Idea that any territory could ban slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it. Asked during the Lincoln-Douglass Debates |  | 9 |
| 8147534851 | Freeport Doctrine | Response by Stephen Douglas to the Freeport Question that said the exclusion of slavery in a territory could be determined popular sovereignty |  | 10 |
| 8147534852 | Harpers Ferry | (JB), 1859 John Brown's scheme to invade the South with armed slaves, backed by sponsoring, northern abolitionists; seized the federal arsenal; Brown and remnants were caught by Robert E. Lee and the US Marines; Brown was hanged | 11 | |
| 8147534853 | Constitutional Union party | Also known as the "do-nothings" or "Old Gentlemen's" party; 1860 election; it was a middle of the road group that feared for the Union- consisted mostly of Whigs and Know-Nothings, met in Baltimore and nominated John Bell from Tennessee as candidate for presidency-the slogan for this candidate was "The Union, the Constitution, and the Enforcement of the laws." | 12 | |
| 8147534855 | Crittenden amendments | Proposed legislation in 1860; final attempt to appease the South; new states north of the 36° 30' line could choose to be slave or free, southern states would always be slave; killed by Lincoln | 13 | |
| 8147534854 | Confederate States of America | South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia | 14 | |
| 8147534856 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Abolitionist, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin | 15 | |
| 8147534857 | Henry Ward Beecher | This New York minister sent Beecher's Bibles - boxes of guns with bibles packed around them so you couldn't see the guns - to Kansas. His sister's name was Harriet. | 16 | |
| 8147534858 | James Buchanan | Democrat President who was criticized for his lack of action as the South was seceding from the Union. | 17 | |
| 8147534859 | Charles Sumner | Abolitionist senator whose verbal attack on the South provoked a physical assault that severely injured him | 18 | |
| 8147534860 | Preston S. Brooks | South Carolina Congressman who beat up Charles Sumner for his speech | 19 | |
| 8147534861 | Dred Scott | A black slave, had lived with his master for 5 years in Illinois and Wisconsin Territory. Backed by interested abolitionists, he sued for freedom on the basis of his long residence on free soil. The ruling on the case was that he was a black slave and not a citizen, so he had no rights | 20 | |
| 8147534862 | Roger B. Taney | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when Dred Scott decision was made | 21 | |
| 8147534863 | Stephen A. Douglas | Senator from Illinois who ran for president against Abraham Lincoln. Wrote the Kansas-Nebreaska Act and the Freeport Doctrine | 22 | |
| 8147534864 | Abraham Lincoln | President during the Civil War, who was well-known for his debates with Congressman Douglass, the Emancipation Proclamation, winning the Civil War, and the Gettysburg Address | 23 | |
| 8147534865 | John Brown | (FP) , Well-known abolitionist. used violence to stop slavery immediately, involved in the Pottawatomie Massacre, he was tried, convicted of treason and hung... he became a martyr | 24 | |
| 8147534866 | John C. Breckinridge | The South's pro-slavery Democratic candidate in the election of 1860. Completed the split of the Democratic Party by being nominated. | 25 | |
| 8147534867 | John Jordan Crittenden | He thought up and proposed the Crittenden Amendments designed to appease the South. These amendments were rejected by Lincoln and all hope of compromise was evaporated. | 26 |
