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| 5789055611 | Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) | Harriet Beecher Stowe's widely read novel that dramatized the horrors of slavery. It heightened Northern support for abolition and escalated the sectional conflict. |  | 0 |
| 5789055613 | New England Emigrant Aid Company | Antislavery organization in the North that sent out thousands of pioneers to the Kansas-Nebraska territory to thwart the Southerners and abolitionize the West. | 1 | |
| 5789055615 | John Brown | abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858) |  | 2 |
| 5789055621 | Preston Brooks (1856) | Hot tempered Congressman of South Carolina He beat Senator Sumner with a cane over perceived insults. He later resigned from his position, but was soon re-elected. |  | 3 |
| 5789055623 | James Buchanan | The 15th President of the United States (1857-1861)- tried to maintain a balance between proslavery and antislavery factions, but his moderate views angered radicals in both North and South |  | 4 |
| 5789055628 | Dred Scott Decision (1857) | Chief Justice Roger Taney led a pro-slavery Supreme Court to uphold the extreme southern position on slavery; his ruling held that Scott was not a citizen (nor were any African Americans), that slavery was protected by the Fifth Amendment and could expand into all territories, and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. |  | 5 |
| 5789055629 | Crash of 1857 | financial panic in the United States caused from the declining international economy and overexpansion of the domestic economy | 6 | |
| 5789055630 | Homestead Act | Law passed in 1862- it gave 160 acres of public land to any settler who would farm the land for five years. The settler would only have to pay a registration fee of $25. |  | 7 |
| 5789055633 | Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858) | 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 |
| 5789055634 | Stephen Douglas | United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery |  | 9 |
| 5789055638 | 1860 election | Abraham Lincoln wins over Stephen Douglas - South Carolina secedes |  | 10 |
| 5789055645 | Confederate States of America | Formed in February of 1861 and composed of the eleven Southern states that seceded from the United States | 11 | |
| 5789055646 | Jefferson Davis | American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865 |  | 12 |
| 5789055648 | Crittenden Plan | Compromise proposals submitted in hopes of preventing a civil war. First submitted by Senator John J. Crittenden of Kentucky- proposal to re-establish the Missouri Compromise line and extend it westward to the Pacific coast. Slavery would be prohibited north or the line and permitted south of the line. |  | 13 |
