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“Beecher’s Bibles”
Was the name given to the breech loading Sharps rifles that were supplied to the anti-slavery immigrants in Kansas.
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"1850 Fugitive Slave Act"
The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. -
"Abraham Lincoln wins election"
The United States had been divided during the 1850s on questions surrounding the expansion of slavery and the rights of slave owners. In 1860 these issues broke the Democratic Party into Northern and Southern factions, and a new Constitutional Union Party appeared. In the face of a divided opposition, the Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured enough electoral votes to put Abraham Lincoln in the White House without support from the South. -
"Bleeding Kansas"
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War, was a series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of Missouri between 1854 and 1861. -
"Compromise of 1850"
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills, passed in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). -
"Dred Scott"
Dred Scott (1795 – September 17, 1858), was an African-American slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as "the Dred Scott Decision. -
"Freeport Doctrine"
The Freeport Doctrine was articulated by Stephen A. Douglas at the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates on August 27, 1858, in Freeport Illinois. Lincoln tried to force Douglas to choose between the principle of popular sovereignty proposed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act................ -
"John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry"
Abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia in 1859. -
"Kansas-Nebraska Act"
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) created the territories of kansas and nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through "popular povereignty". -
"Lecompton Constitution"
The Lecompton Constitution was the second of four proposed constitutions for the state of Kansas it was preceded by the Topeka Constitution and was followed by the Leavenworth and Wyandotte..... -
"Lincoln-Douglas Debates"
The Lincoln–Douglas Debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the republican candidate for senate in Illinois, and the incumbent senator stephen douglas, the democratic party candidate. At the time, U.S. senators were elected by state legislatures; thus Lincoln and Douglas were trying for their respective parties to win control of the Illinois legislature. -
"Pottawatomie Massacre"
The Pottawatomie Massacre occurred during the night of May 24 and the morning of May 25, 1856. In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence Kansas by pro-slavery forces John Brown and a band of abolitionist settlers....... -
"Presidential Election"
The election of the president and vice president of the United States is an indirect vote in which citizens cast ballots for a slate of members of the U.S. Electoral College, these electors in turn directly elect the President and Vice President. -
"Stowe’s “Uncle Toms Cabin”"
Uncle Tom's Cabin or, life among the lowly is an anti-slavery novel by american author Harriet Beecher Stowe..........
