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This played a role in the rise of the antislavery Republican Party, it helped shape the political scene by making the North far more open to antislavery reform than it was before. This book shared the ideas about the injustices of slavery and pushed back against dominant cultural beliefs about physical and emotional capacities of black people.
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This destroyed the Whig Party, divided the Democratic Party, and created the Republican Party. Douglas proposed that the area near Iowa and Missouri should be opened to white settlement and members of congress demanded to add a clause to repeal the Missouri Compromise. Douglas proposed popular sovereignty to the territories.
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This party was born of hostility to slavery, in 1820 the U.S. Congress agreed that Missouri entered the Union as a slave state but it was forbidden anywhere else in the Louisiana Purchase. The Kansas-Nebraska Act threatened this principle because the whites of the two territories could decide whether slavery would be allowed there or not. This led to the Free Soil Party and Martin Van Buren ran for president but he ended up losing in 1848.
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This was a period of repeated outbreaks of violent warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces, this was because of the new territory of Kansas in 1854. This was an attempt to establish territory as a slave state. The rivalry of territorial governments, election fraud and fights over land contributed to the violence of this situation.
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This was the beating of Charles Sumner, it occurred in United States Senate chamber when Preston Brooks used a cane to attack Senate Charles Sumner. Brooks was a pro-slavery Democrat and Sumner was a abolitionist Republican. Brooks hit Sumner because of the anti-slavery speech Sumner gave.
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This was a presidential election that took place in the midst of Kansas’s Civil War. The democrats wanted a less controversial candidate so they chose James Buchanan.
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The Dred Scott decision was when Scott sued for his rights, he said that since he was living on free soil his slavery status was erased. The Supreme Court granted him his rights but a few years later they reversed it and he became a slave again and he took it to federal court. The federal court said that he didn’t have a right to sue because slaves and free black are not citizens of the United States.
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Lincoln talked about the Dred Scott decision since it had open doors for slavery to be legal in the north. Lincoln said "A house divided against itself cannot stand" Lincoln believed that the government cannot endure a permanently half slave and half free and he wanted to remove the division in the house.
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This was a debate between Lincoln and Douglas. Lincoln was Republican and Douglas was democrat. Douglas argued that slavery was a dying institution that had reached its natural limits and could not thrive and that slavery could be resolved if it were treated as a local problem.
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This was a pro-slavery document that would allow slavery in Kansas. This contained clauses protecting slavery and the bill of rights to exclude black people.
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John Brown was a Kansas abolitionist and wanted to free slaves. His plan was to capture the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and arm slaves from the surrounding areas to start a slave revolt. This raid was unsuccessful because he raided with 21 men. He was caught as put on trial in a Virginia Court.
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Because of his unsuccessful raid at Harpers Ferry, he was put on trial in a Virginia court. He was found guilty of treason, conspiracy, and murder. He was issued the death sentence and it was set for December 2, 1859.
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11 slave states seceded from the Union following the election of Lincoln as president. The states that seceded were South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
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This election demonstrated the division within the United States. Lincoln won the election and had more electoral votes and more popular votes than any candidate. This election of Lincoln caused the secession of slave states.
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In his address, Lincoln promised not to interfere with the institution of slavery and pledges to suspend the activities of the federal government temporarily in areas of hostility.