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| 250680172 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book about a slave who is treated badly, in 1852. The book persuaded more people, particularly Northerners, to become anti-slavery. | 0 | |
| 250680173 | 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. | 1 | |
| 250680174 | Hinton Helper (1857) | a Southern critic of slavery during the 1850s who wrote a book entitled The Impending Crisis of The South The book put forth the notion that slavery hurt the economic prospects of non-slaveholders, and was an impediment to the growth of the entire region of the South. | 2 | |
| 250680175 | 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. | 3 | |
| 250680176 | Henry Ward Beecher | United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887) | 4 | |
| 250680177 | John Brown | abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858) | 5 | |
| 250680178 | Pottawatomie Creek (1856) | John Brown and his sons slaughtered five men as a response to the election fraud in Lawrence and the caning of Sumner in Congress | 6 | |
| 250680179 | Lecompton Constitution (1857) | Proposed Kansas constitution, whose ratification was unfairly rigged so as to guarantee slavery in the territory. Initially ratified by proslavery forces, it was later voted down when Congress required that the entire constitution be put up for a vote. | 7 | |
| 250680180 | Buchanan veto | President Buchanan vetoed the Homestead Act | 8 | |
| 250680181 | Douglas reservations | look to your notes! | 9 | |
| 250680182 | Sen. Charles Sumner | He was an unpopular senator from Mass., and a leading abolitionist. In 1856, he made an assault in the pro-slavery of South Carolina and the South in his coarse speech, "The Crime Against Kansas." The insult angered Congressmen Brooks of South Carolina. Brooks walked up to Sumner's desk and beat him unconscious. This violent incident helped touch off the war between the North and the South. | 10 | |
| 250680183 | Sen. Preston Brooks (1856) | A hot tempered Congressman of South Carolina took vengeance in his own hands. He beat Sumner with a cane until he was restrained by other Senators. He later resigned from his position, but was soon reelected. | 11 | |
| 250680184 | 1856 election | James Buchanan won election with all southern state votes except Maryland. | 12 | |
| 250680185 | James Buchanan (Dem.) | The 15th President of the United States (1857-1861). He tried to maintain a balance between proslavery and antislavery factions, but his moderate views angered radicals in both North and South, and he was unable to forestall the secession of South Carolina on December 20, 1860. | 13 | |
| 250680186 | John C. Fremont (Rep.) | an American military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform in opposition to slavery. | 14 | |
| 250680187 | American ("Know-Nothing") Party | Developed from the order of the Star Spangled Banner and was made up of nativists. This party was organized due to its secretiveness and in 1865 nominated the ex-president Fillmore. These super-patriots were antiforeign and anti-Catholic and adopted the slogan "American's must rule America!" Remaining members of the Whig party also backed Fillmore for President. | 15 | |
| 250680188 | Dred Scott | United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state | 16 | |
| 250680189 | Chief Justice Roger B. Taney | As chief justice, he wrote the important decision in the Dred Scott case, upholding police power of states and asserting the principle of social responsibility of private property. He was Southern and upheld the fugitive slave laws. | 17 | |
| 250680190 | 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. | 18 | |
| 250680191 | Crash of 1857 | a financial panic in the United States caused from the declining international economy and overexpansion of the domestic economy. Beginning in September of 1857, the financial downturn did not last long, however a proper recovery was not seen until the American Civil War.[1] After the failure of Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company, the financial panic quickly spread as business began to fail, the railroad industry experienced financial declines and hundreds of workers were laid off. | 19 | |
| 250680192 | Homestead Act | 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. | 20 | |
| 250680193 | Tariff of 1857 | This new tariff responded to souther pressure. It reduced rates to their lowest since 1812. (James Buchanan) | 21 | |
| 250680194 | Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865) | 22 | |
| 250680195 | 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 | 23 | |
| 250680196 | The "Little Giant" | United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery, Nickname for Stephen Douglas | 24 | |
| 250680197 | "Freeport Doctrine" | Doctrine developed by Stephen Douglas that said the exclusion of slavery in a territory could be determined by the refusal of the voters to enact any laws that would protect slave property. It was unpopular with Southerners, and thus cost him the election. | 25 | |
| 250680198 | John Brown | abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858) | 26 | |
| 250680199 | Harpers Ferry (1859) | Brown aimed to create an armed slave rebellion and establish black free state; Brown executed and became martyr in the North | 27 | |
| 250680200 | 1860 election | Abraham Lincoln wins over Stephen Douglas - South Carolina secedes | 28 | |
| 250680201 | Douglas (No. Dem.) | United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery | 29 | |
| 250680202 | John C. Breckenridge (So. Dem.) | One of the two democratic candidates against Lincoln. The other was Stephen A Douglas. He was nominated by the Southern Democrats. Buchanan's VP. | 30 | |
| 250680203 | John Bell | Presidential candidate of the Constitutional Union Party. He drew votes away from the Democrats, helping Lincoln win. | 31 | |
| 250680204 | William H. Seward | senator of NY; antislavery and argued that God's moral law was higher than the constitution | 32 | |
| 250680205 | Lincoln (Rep.) | Domestic:All other parties split (Republican - first sectional party) Civil War Emancipation Proclamation Crittenden compromise - 36 30 would be above would be free and territory below later acquired would be slave - Lincoln smacks it down Freedmen's Bureau - Education, and land for blacks. | 33 | |
| 250680206 | South Carolina secession (December 1860) | 1st state to secede, starts secession movement, argues in the election of 1860 "why be part of nation where we are irrelevant" | 34 | |
| 250680207 | Confederate States of America | a republic formed in February of 1861 and composed of the eleven Southern states that seceded from the United States | 35 | |
| 250680208 | Jefferson Davis | an American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865 | 36 | |
| 250680209 | Sen. James Henry Crittenden | Kentucky Senator who proposed amending the Constitution to appease the Confederate states, giving slavery federal protection in the south and guaranteeing slaveowners full rights in souther territories, regardless of popular sovereignty- tried to bring the south back into the union | 37 | |
| 250680210 | Crittenden compromise attempt | Series of compromises in 1860 - 61 intended to forestall the American Civil War. Sen. John J. Crittenden proposed constitutional amendments that would reenact provisions of the Missouri Compromise and extend them to the western territories, indemnify owners of fugitive slaves whose return was prevented by antislavery elements in the North, allow a form of popular sovereignty in the territories, and protect slavery in the District of Columbia. The plan was rejected by president-elect Abraham Lincoln and narrowly defeated in the Senate. | 38 |
