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Uncle Tom's Cabin
A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, describing the life of a slave, her most famous book; gained more sympathy for slaves in the North.
It contributed to the Civil War because Many thought the depiction she wrote was inaccurate, the south thought it was too brutal. -
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Bloody Kansas
Violence from both anti-slavery (Led by John Brown) and pro-slavery peoples, to claim the territory of Kansas and make it a free or slave. This was a mini-civil war between the North and the South, and was the real first outbreak of violence between the two, help divide the sides and lead to the civil war. -
Republican Party
The Republican party was the Anti-slavery Whigs party start of forming a new party, by Mar, 20th 1854, it is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican party of the North. They were the biggest Anti-slavery party of the United States & North. Increased tension. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act infuriated many in the North who considered the Missouri Compromise to be a long-standing binding agreement. In the pro-slavery South it was strongly supported, which contributed to the Civil War. -
Brooks-Sumner Incident
It is when Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner, a avowed abolitionist and leader of the Republican party, with a cane. Sumner gave a bitter, two-day long speech after the sack of Lawrence and was angry with the outcome. The violence between the North and South grew, and the physical damage became worse. -
Election 1856
It was the 18th election for the U.S. between James Buchanan (Democrat), Republican John C. Fremont, and American Party(know nothings/ anti-immigrant party) nominee Millard Fillmore. James Buchanan won putting a pro-slavery man into presidency.
Slavery was the omnipresent issue, and the Democrats endorsed popular sovereignty as the method to determine slavery's legality for newly admitted states. The tensions between South & North grew with this new Democratic president. -
LeCompton Constitution
This was a proslavery Constitution for the state Kansas that was based upon popular sovereignty, which would make Kansas a slave state. Created by pro-slavery advocates of Kansas statehood. It contained clauses protecting slaveholding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks.
There was enough opposition, and it added to the frictions leading up to the U.S. Civil War
Dec 21, 1857, Jan 4, 1858, & Aug 2, 1858. In the final vote, residents of Kansas Territory rejected the Lecompton Constitution. -
House Divided Speech
“House Divided” speech. A speech made by Abraham Lincoln to the Illinois Republican convention in 1858. In the speech, Lincoln noted that conflict between North and South over slavery was intensifying. ... He continued: “I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
Lincoln basically pointed out that the growing tensions between North and South would cause a war, because the government couldn’t continue with a half free, half slave union. -
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Lincoln Douglas Debates
Series of seven debates between the Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas and Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign; largely concerned the issue of slavery expansion into the other territories.
This pushed the tensions of opposite sides of the North and South on the ideas of slavery.
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Dred Scott
A supreme Court case which ruled that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States. Supreme Court officially voided the Missouri Compromise; which made slavery legal in all US territories. Congress has no right to stop slavery-angers North -
Harper's Ferry
In October 1859, the U.S. military arsenal at Harpers Ferry was the target of an assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown. The raid was intended to be the first stage in an elaborate plan to establish an independent stronghold of freed slaves in the mountains of Maryland and Virginia. Raised the risks on the 1860 elections, raised tensions. -
John Brown
Born May 9, 1800, died December 2, 1859, He was an American abolitionist who lead the raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry who was later hanged. John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia. His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South.
He became a martyr to the anti slavery cause and was instrumental in heightening sectional animosities that lead to the Civil War. -
Election 1860
Between Abraham Lincoln and Sen. Stephen A. Douglas for who would be the 16th president of the United States, where a disagreement over the official party policy on slavery prompted dozens of delegates from Southern states to withdraw
Douglas received a majority of the delegates’ support but could not amass the required two-thirds majority needed for nomination. Further exposed sectional differences between those in the North and the South for those who wanted to abolish slavery and protect -
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Secession
SC-Dec 20th 1860, Mississippi-Jan 9th 1861, FL-Jan 10th 1861, AL-Jan 11th 1861. It was a war between the Union (North) and the Confederacy (South) in order to solve the question of slavery. Start of the Civil War? -
Lincoln’s 1st Inaugural Address
Enforce Federal laws in the states the seceded. made no specific threats against the Southern states; trying to keep the states of the Upper South in the Union. In his speech, he promised not to interfere with the institution of slavery where it existed, pledged to suspend federal government temporarily in areas of hostility After his speech seven states seceded the union worried that the election of a Republican would threaten their rights, and it left the air heavy with the threat of war