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Uncle Tom's Cabin
A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. the novel played a role in convincing the North and South that the slavery issue was leading both sides to an impressible conflict. the novel expressed the lives of slaves. people in the north further hated slavery and people in the south say the novel misrepresented slavery. when Stowe met president Lincoln he said she was the "little lady that started our big war". -
Kansas Nebraska Act
the Kansas Nebraska Act allowed the people in the Kansas- Nebraska territory to decide whether they wanted slavery or not. it also contributed to the rising tensions between the North and the South because some people in the territory wanted slavery and others different, so again it brings up the slavery issue. -
Bloody Kansas
People who were for slavery poured into the Kansas territory to try and settle the area as a slave state but a small civil war broke out and it led to the creation of the Republican Party. -
John Brown
Brown raided Harper's Ferry in attempt to arm slaves with weapons and start an uprising. he believed that what he was doing was right, but those who were for slavery didn't agree with him. -
Election 1856
Republican candidate John C. Frémont condemned the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and crusaded against the Slave Power and the expansion of slavery, while Democrat James Buchanan warned that the Republicans were extremists whose victory would lead to civil war. -
Brook summer incident
Representative Preston Brooks (D-SC) used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA). The two were in a destructive debate over the future of slavery which would lead to the civil war. -
Dred Scott
an African American man born into slavery in Missouri. Again the tension between the North and the South based on the slavery issue was risen. Scott moved into the upper part of the Louisiana territory where slavery wasn't allowed. so it was questioned whether he was free or still a slave, which contributed to the slavery issue. -
Lecompton constitution
Was written to make Kansas a slave state but seeing as there was enough opposition that it was sent back to congress. -
Lincoln Douglas debates
The debates between republican candidate,Abraham Lincoln and democratic candidate, Stephen Douglas. At this time slavery became a big political issue. Part of the debate discussed popular sovereignty (Douglas). -
House divided speech
A house can not stand if it’s divided. The north and the south were divided and Lincoln basically said either get rid of slavery or face war. -
Harper's Ferry raid
John Brown raided Harper's ferry in hopes to seize the guns stored there and to start a slave rebellion.The raid was unsuccessful. Harper's ferry contributed to the rising tension between the north and the south and aroused the feelings on the slavery issue. it drove the nation closer to disunion. -
Election of 1860
the election revealed how divided the nation was. there was separate sectional campaigns one in the north , lincoln v. Douglas and one in the south, Breckinridge v. Bell. -
Succession
11 states succeeded from the union and created the confederacy and led to the civil war. -
Lincoln 1st inaugural address
Lincoln was trying to maintain the union while the south was ready to split.