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John Brown
John Brown was a white American abolitionist who believed that the only way to overthrow slavery was to fight for it. Because of this he was the leader of the raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His plan was to seize weapons and hand them out to slaves to escape from their masters. However, his plan failed and within 36 hours of the attack his men had been killed or captured. John Brown was hung on December 2, 1859 and what some would consider a martyr. -
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was very influential. She was known for her writings and her public stands on social issues of the time. -
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Stephen Douglas
U.S. politician, leader of the Democratic Party. Introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act. -
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Fredrick Douglas
Civil Rights Actavist.A former slave and eminent human rights leader in the abolition movement, was the first black citizen to hold a high U.S. government rank. He escaped slavery at age of 20 and went on to become one of the most important African American leaders of the 1800s. -
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Harriet Tubman
Most famouse and daring conductor of the Underground Railroad. Escaped slavery in 1849, and reaturned to the south 19 times. She successfully lead her family and 300 other slaves to freedom. -
Missouri Compromise
Settled the conflict that had arisen from Missouri's application for statehood. Has three main conditions.
1. Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state
2. Maine would join the Union as a free state, keeping the number of slave and free states equal.
3. Slavery would be prohibited in any new territories or states formed north of 36*30' latitude--Nissouri's southern boarder. -
William Lloyd Garrison
~ A very realigous man dedicated to the cuase of abolishing slavery
~published abolitinist newspaper called the liberater and helped to found the American Anti- Slavery Society -
Mexican-American War
(1846-1848) It pitted a politically divided & militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S president James K. Polk who beleived the U.S had a "manifest destiny" to spred against the continent to the pacific ocean. -
Free soil act
Short lived political party in the U.S active in the 1849 and 1853 presidental elections. Its main purpose was opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories agruing that the free men on free soil compromised a morally and economically superior system to slavery. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
~ law passed by congress that alowed the capture and return of runaway slaves
~ Anyone who helped an escaped slave would be punished by law -
Compromise of 1850
A package of 5 bills passed in the U.S in september 1850, which defused a four year confrontion between slave states of the south and free states of the north. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Anti Slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, it was published in 1852. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. Changed forever how Americans viewed slavery, the system that treated people as property. -
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Bleeding Kansas
Period of violent disturbances between abolitionists and proslavery advocates in the US territory of Kansas. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
A law passed by Congress in 1854 that divided the territory west of the states of Missouri and Iowa and the territory of Minnesota into two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska. The law was extremely controversial because it did not exclude slavery from either territory, despite the fact that the Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery in these territories. By effectively repealing the Missouri Compromise, the law outraged many northerners. This moved the nation closer to civil war -
The Repbulican party
~A political party united against the spread of slavery to the west
~ chose explorer Jhon C Fremont as the first canidate -
Pottawatomie Massacre
Along Pottawatomie Creek abolitionist John Brown and his men killed five pro-slavery men in Kansas. Brown and his men killed the pro-slavery men with swords. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was born a slave in Virginia around 1802, In 1830 he was bought as a slave by an officer in the US Army. When his master died he was taken back to Missouri. In 1846, Scott was helped by abolitionist lawyers to sue for his freedom. In Scott lost the decision as seven out of nine Justices on the Supreme Court declared no slave or descendant of a slave could be a U.S. citizen, or ever had been a U.S. citizen. As a non-citizen, the court stated, Scott had to remain a slave. -
Abe Lincoln
16th president of the U.s, serving from 1861-1865. Licoln led the U.S throught its civil war. In 1858 he opposed the expansion of slavery. -
Freeport Doctrine
A statement made by Stephen Douglas during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that pointed out how people could use popular sovereignty to determine if their state or territory should permit slavery. -
Election of 1860
~Democratic party chose Stephan Douglas for the north and Jhon C Breckinridge for the south
~the Constitutional Union party was formed and they selected Jhon Bell
~the Republicans chose Abraham Lincoln to run
~Licoln won the election and the south seceded from the union -
The Confederate States of America
~ was made up of 7 seceded states... Including: Alabama, Flordia, Georgia,lousiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas
~ was joined by 4 more states of April 12 of 1861 including: Arkansas, North Carolina, tenessee, and virginia
~ Jeferson Davis was the first and only president (from mississippi) -
Sojourner Truth
~ Former slave who gained Freedom in 1826
~ Abolitionist, who claimed God had called upon her to travel through the United States to prech the TRUTH about womens rights and slavery
~Died november 26 1883
