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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin pushed the debate forward on slavery. Many Southerners denounced the book, while it helped shore up support in the North for the abolitionist movement. It continued to nudge slavery towards a spotlight problem for the United States. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The purpose of this act was to define which land was part of Nebraska and which land was part of Kansas. They was that this problem was resolved was by popular sovereignty. Letting them decide where the states territories where. -
Bloody Kansas
The leading cause on causing Bloody Kansas was the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 which allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska. Deciding whether or not their should or shouldn't be slavery in the mentioned states. The impact of this was a series of violent civil actions in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859. -
Election 1856
The U.S presidential election was the 18th quadrennial presidential election. As the Republican Party gained more power over the US, the Whig Party’s decreased. With the 1856 Presidential election the nation gained an openly abolitionist-based political party, although the Republican Party did not call for an absolute abolition of slavery. Republicans opposed slavery’s expansion into the western territories. Democrat James Buchanan defeated the Republican party and because president. -
Republican Party
The Republican Party in the 1850s, when antislavery leaders such as Democrats and the Whigs band together to stop the spread of slavery into Kansas and Nebraska by enacting the Kansas-Nebraska Act. A meeting Ripon, Wisconsin, and Jackson, Michigan, proposed a new group be formed. Established by a political convention in Jackson. -
Brooks-Sumner incedent
he Beating of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair occurring in the year 1856 in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts. He was beat severally and was left with permanent deformation to the face and body, leading to his never approaching recovery. -
Dred Scott
Scott was an enslaved African American who unsuccessfully was able to win his rights in the Dred v. Sanford case. He brought suit for his freedom based on him living in free territories for five years, but the US Supreme Court ruled against him in the case that became the focus of much heated political controversy. -
House-Divided Speech
The House Divided Speech was an address given by Abraham Lincoln, later on knows as President of the United States, at what was then the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, after he had accepted the Illinois Republican Party's nomination as that state's US senator. It was the launching point of his unsuccessful campaign for the Senatorial seat held by Douglas, the campaign would climax with the Lincoln–Douglas debates. -
Lincoln Douglas Debates
The Lincoln Douglas debate was a fight over wo would take on the senates position. Eventually lading to Douglass loss due to popular vote. The main issue was slavery was whether or no slavery sho9uld be in more territories. Lincoln wanted to stop the expansion of slavery. While Douglas wanted to let people decide whether or not to spread slavery. Not saying that he wanted slavery but just saying that he wanted to people to make the decision instead of just the people in government. -
John Brown
John Brown was an abolitionist during pre-Civil War times in the United States. He didn't believe in aggression against slaveholders and any government officials who enabled them. He ran tannery and cattle trading businesses prior to the economic crisis of 1839, Brown started to get involves with the anti-slavery movement following the murder of Presbyterian minister and anti-slavery activist Elijah P. Lovejoy. He was executed due to charges of treason, murder and insurrection. -
Harpers ferry
This is a a small town near Potomac and Shenandoah river, founded in 1799 by president George Washington. At Harpers Ferry in the year 1859, abolitionist, John brown made his attack towards the federal arsenal. He did this by gathering a group of six abolitionist called the "Secret Six" His army eventually grew to have twenty-two men. Their plan was to rent some land near Harpers Ferry and prepare for the attack. -
Secession
"the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state." "the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War." -
Election 1860
Abraham Lincoln was elected the sixteenth President of the United States, with Hannibal Hamlin of Maine his Vice-President. Lincoln and Hamlin received 1,866,452 popular votes and 180 electoral votes in 17 of the 33 states. -
Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address
Lincolns first inaugural address set the tone for what was to come in the future, in order to prepare the States that changed possibility in the future and to reassure them that the constitution would be upheld. Lincoln wanted to be clear from the start of his presidency, his intentions and hopes for the future United States.