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Uncle Tom's Cabin
This was a book written by Harriette Beecher Stowe, and it was an important part to the start of the civil war. The book was about the horrors of slavery in which the North sympathized for and the South highly disliked. -
Bloody Kansas
This was an effect of the Kansas Nebraska Act. This was a series of violent fights between pro and anti slavery people in Kansas as a way to sway votes. -
Republican party
The Republican Party was made after the Kansas Nebraska act, by an anti-slavery coalition. Their goal was to stop slavery from spreading to the west, and the split between North and South brought Lincoln to win the presidential election. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
This was a compromise to let Kansas and Nebraska to chose their standing on slavery through popular sovereignty. This caused violence, known as bleeding Kansas, as a way to sway voting. -
Brooks Sumner Incident
In the Senate chamber, Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner with a cane. This showed a break in reason and the violence led to the Civil war. -
Election of 1856
This was a presidential election between Buchanan and Frémont. This election was the first for a president to be re-elected even when they didn't want to. Buchanan wanted to find a peaceful way to solve things, and avoid a civil war. An issue during the election was the Kansas-Nebraska Act and Buchanan won by just two states, this set up the 1860 election that started the civil war. -
Dred Scott
Dred Scott was a former slave that successfully sued for his freedom. This furthered the divide between the North and the South and the secession of the Southern states. -
House Divided Speech
This was an address given by Lincoln when he was a senate. He stated that the Dred Scott decision has opened the north and west to allow slavery in their state. The House Divided he is referring to is the the United States and the North and South. -
Lincoln Douglas Debates
This was a series of debates between Lincoln and Douglas, for the position of Illinois' senate. The debates were mainly over slavery, and who had the power to allow or restrict it. -
LeCompton Constitution
This was a pro-slavery document that would allow Kansas to have slaves. It had a protective slaveholding bill of rights. This was a controversial thing since most residence didn't want slavery. -
Harpers Ferry
This is where John Brown's raid took place, as well as becoming an important military place right after succession. -
John Brown
John Brown took the armory at Harpers Ferry and attempted to free slaves, hoping that they would join him in his rebellion to free more slaves. He failed and ended up getting ten of his men killed and himself wounded. -
Election of 1860
This was an important event that further showed the division of the U.S. and ultimately pushed the nation into war. The main topics during the election were slavery and rights of states. -
secession
For fear of slavery being undermined, South Carolina was the first to secede from the U.S.. With the other states that seceded, their votes to do so were not unanimous. After secession, that confederate states did what they could to take forts, arsenals, and other buildings. -
Lincoln's 1" inaugural Address
Lincolns First Inaugural Address was a promise to stay out of slavery where it already was, and to pause government intervention in hostile areas. This address would be Lincoln as the new president as well as the leader of a nation in a crisis.