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The Republican Party
The party came to power in 1801 with the election of Jefferson in the 1800 presidential election. The second person to run as a Republican. Apposed slavery spreading. The Whing party cleared the way for the party. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was an anti-slavery novel having an effect on the African Americans and was said to "layout the groundwork for the Civil War". Antislavery novel. Had an effect on how people perceived slavery. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Passed May 30, 1854. 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. Wanted to make way for a continental- -
Bloody Kansas crisis of 1856
Violence over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. Showed the difference of the north and south and the extent the two sides are willing to go to. -
Brooks-Sumner incident
Preston Brooks beats Charles Sumner with a cane. Shows how peoples beliefs were being threatened even to the point of physical violence. -
Election 1856
The election showed opposition to the Democrats. In a three-way election, Democrat James Buchanan defeated Republican nominee John C. Frémont and American Party nominee Millard Fillmore. Buchanan won showing that a democracy in office can bring a civil war. The first time the Democrats have a representative. -
LeCompton Constitution
second of four proposed constitutions for the state of Kansas. It reposed anti-slavery positions of different advocated the Kansas Constitution. Excluded free blacks to live in Kansas. The US Congress didn't approve. -
Dred Scott
He made the question if a slave was in a free territory can they be a citizen. He was still considered property and therefore had no right to have a lawsuit. An African American, free or not, aren't citizens. Because of this people brought their slaves to the west and broke the compromise. -
House Divided Speech
In the speech, Lincoln noted that conflict between North and South over slavery was intensifying. Noted that the conflict between the north and south has grown until it is solved- -
Lincoln Douglas Debates
Seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois, and the incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate both running to win the Senate seat of Illinois. Was done for the election. -
John Brown
Brown and 21 of his followers attacked the arsenal in Harpers Ferry. Their goal was to capture supplies and use them to arm a slave rebellion. Abolitionist. -
Harpers Ferry
A small party of abolitionist on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry in what is now West Virginia. Some of his men rounded up a handful of hostages, including a few slaves. Best known for John Brown's raid on the armory. -
Election 1860
Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin. Abraham won. The Republican Party gave the Democratic Party a true opponent. - -
Secession
The Lower and Upper South severed their ties with the Union. The first seven seceding states of the Lower South set up a provisional government at Montgomery, Alabama. After hostilities began at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861, the border states of Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to Richmond, Virginia. To form the Confederacy. Later Texas succeeds. -
Lincoln's 1" lnaugural Address
Tried to keep states from seceding. The Constitution, Lincoln says, was created because we already tried to go it alone as separate states, and that attempt was a failed experiment. Wanted to preserve the union. Wanted to retain support in the North and not further alienate the South.