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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book describing the life of a slave her which made Northerners see slaves in a different way as slavery was wrong. It affects the Civil War by making the life of slavery seem too harsh as many thought of it that way. -
Bloody Kansas
It was just tons of violence in Kansas and bloody fights between the anti-slavery and pro-slavery people fighting for it to be free or not. This was the first outbreak of violence between the two sides and lead to the civil war. -
Republican Party
Anti-slavery Whigs party started the Republican Party of the North. When it was made it was the biggest Anti-slavery party which increased tensions between the North and South as the anti-slavery people had a party now. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act basically got rid of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30. It told the people of Kansas and Nebraska to decide if wanted to allow slavery within their borders or not. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. -
Brooks Sumer Incident
Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner with a cane because he was an abolitionist and against slavery. After the beating Sumner gave a two-day speech as he was terribly hurt. It caused the violence between the North and South to grow a lot, tensions were even higher now. -
Election of 1856
The election was between James Buchanan, John C. Fremont, and Millard Fillmore in which James Buchanan won which was for slavery. Slavery was a big issue, so tensions between the South & North grew as the country now had a Democratic president. -
LeCompton Constitution
This was a proslavery Constitution for the state of Kansas based on popular sovereignty. It made Kansas a slave state and stated the rights of slave owners and of free black people. The constitution lead and increased more tensions for the Civil War. In the final vote, residents of Kansas Territory rejected the Lecompton Constitution. -
House Divided Speech
This was an address given by Abraham Lincoln before he was elected the president, it was given in Springfield Illinois after he had accepted the Republican nomination for that state’s US Senator. Lincoln 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
Seven debates in total between the Democrat Stephen A Douglas and Republican Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign. Focused on the expansion issue of slavery and made more tensions between the North and South. The debates focused on Dred Scott and popular sovereignty. -
Dred Scott
The case ruled that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory was not given his freedom after he ran into a free state. Supreme Court officially got rid of the Missouri Compromise, which made slavery legal in all US territories. -
Harpers Ferry
At Harpers Ferry Led by John Brown, at Harper's ferry, a group of abolitionists raided making the first effort to establish an independent stronghold of freed slaves in Maryland and Virginia mountains. This event led to John Brown's hanging. -
John Brown
John Brown led a raid at Harpers Ferry to start a liberation movement among the slaves. He was tried for treason, helping slaves illegally, and killing five people as he was found guilty and hanged. -
Election of 1860
Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in which Douglas got the majority of the delegate's support but could not get the two-thirds majority needed which lead to sectional differences between the North and the South for the people that wanted to abolish slavery and protect it. -
South Secession
The secession of the South happened after Lincoln was elect the president and it led to the establishment of the confederacy. Southerners did not like the new president because he opposed slavery. Later the confederacy and the north fought in the civil war, basically, the south against the north. -
Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address
Lincoln talks about his doings and judgments as the new president and addresses the highly know issue of slavery and says he will leave slavery where it's at and encourages the South to stay with the North, he also enforces federal law. After his speech, seven states seceded from the union because the south was afraid that their rights for slavery would be affected.