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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet beacher Stowe published the novel hoping to inform and show people the life of slavery, and to make the South look bad. This novel "helped lay the ground work for the civil war". -
Bloody Kansas
Between the years of 1854 to 1861 there was a conflict of whether Kansas would become a free or slave state. Then resulted in the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 called the "popular sovereignty" in which settlers would chose whether or not they would allow slaves. -
Republican Party
anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on 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´. -
Brooks-Summer Incident
In the United States Senate, Brooks attacked Charles Summer with a walking cane, where Summer was beaten up badly, and his recovery lasted about 3 years. -
Election of 1856
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
Basically, a slave went into free territory, and thought that he was free now. He tried to sue the Supreme Court, but African Americans aren't citizens. Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional in deciding which states are slave or free. -
LeCompton Constitution
Second Constitution for the Kansas Territory, written by pro-slavery reporters. It permitted slavery, excluded free blacks from living in the territory, and only men can vote. -
Lincoln's house divided speech
An address given by Abraham Lincoln before he was president, in Springfield Illinois after he had accepted the republican nomination for that state’s US Senator. -
Lincoln Douglas Debate
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Harper's Ferry
John Brown led slaves to an armory, and wanted to initiate a slave revolt. This event led to his hanging -
John Brown's Execution
In 1859, Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry to start a liberation movement among the slaves there. ... He was tried for treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, the murder of five men, and inciting a slave insurrection. He was found guilty on all counts and was hanged. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln (republican) defeated John C. Breckinridge (S democrat) and also defeated Stephen A. Douglas (democrat) -
South Secession
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln won the election, and made tensions arise. The secession of the South led to the establishment of the confederacy. Southerners feared with the president that opposed slavery, soon enough the institution would be outlawed as a whole. SOUTH CAROLINA WAS THE FIRST TO SECEDE. -
Lincoln’s 1st Inaugural Address
Part of taking his oath for his first term.