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| 562658468 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896) | |
| 562658469 | Hinton R. Helper | Southern-born author whose book attacking slavery's effects on whites aroused northern opinion (1828-1909) | |
| 562658470 | John Brown | abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858) | |
| 562658471 | James Buchanan | 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. | |
| 562658472 | Charles Sumner | Leading Radical Republican senator throughout the Civil War and Reconstruction periods (1790-1874) | |
| 562658473 | John C. Fremont | 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. (1813-1900) | |
| 562658474 | Dred Scott | United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state (1795-1858) | |
| 562658475 | Roger Tancy | Supreme court justice who presided over Dred Scott decision (1836-1864) | |
| 562658476 | John C. Breckenridge | One of the two democratic candidates against Lincoln. The other was Stephen A Douglas. He was nominated by the Southern Democrats. Buchanan's VP. (1821-1875) | |
| 562658477 | John Bell | Tennessee politician and Plantation owner, nominated for president in 1860 by the United States Constitutional Union Party (Whig's) but lost to Lincoln and the Republicans. | |
| 562658478 | 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) | |
| 562658479 | Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America (1808-1889) | |
| 562658480 | John Crittenden | In December, 1860 he promoted a last minute compromise to hold the Union together, the Crittenden Compromise. It consisted of six unamendable amendments to the Constitution | |
| 562658481 | self-determination | the right of people to choose their own form of government | |
| 562658482 | southern nationalism | This was the development of a specific southern identity independent of a larger national identity. Sig: This subculture was one of the largest justifications for the south to secede and subsequently go to war. (1861-1865) | |
| 562658483 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1853 that highly influenced england's view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict. | |
| 562658484 | The Impending Crisis of the South | A book written by Hinton Helper. Helper hated both slavery and blacks and used this book to try to prove that non-slave owning whites were the ones who suffered the most from slavery. The non-aristocrat from N.C. had to go to the North to find a publisher that would publish his book. (1857) | |
| 562658485 | New England Immigrant Aid Society | 1854 was created to pay antislave settlers to go into Kansas, so when the state voted on whether or not to allow slavery the vote would be on the antislave side. | |
| 562658486 | Pottawatomie Creek massacre | In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence by pro-slavery forces, John Brown and a band of abolitionist settlers killed five pro-slavery settlers north of Pottawatomie Creek in Franklin County, Kansas (1856) | |
| 562658487 | 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. (1857) | |
| 562658488 | "Bleeding Kansas" | A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent. (1854-1861) | |
| 562658489 | American (Know-Nothing) party | a former political party active in the 1850s to keep power out of the hands of immigrants and Roman Catholics (called nativists) | |
| 562658490 | Dred Scott decision | A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen. (1852) | |
| 562658491 | 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 | |
| 562658492 | 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 | |
| 562658493 | Freeport Doctrine | Idea authored by Stephen Douglas that claimed slavery could only exist when popular sovereignty said so (1858) | |
| 562658494 | Harpers Ferry raid | a raid made by John Brown on a city in Virginia; wanted to inspire a slave revolt, but the slaves did not follow him; he was executed, later; supported by North; hated by South (1859) | |
| 562658495 | Constitutional Union Party | a former political party in the United States (1860) | |
| 562658496 | Crittenden Compromise | a plan proposed in December 1860 attempting to save the Union; it would divide the western territories by using the old Missouri Compromise line |
