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Effects of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1852. By 1853, the book spread across europe, making Europeans realize how terrible slavery is. Europe did not get involved in the Civil War because of this book. -
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Kansas- Nebraska Act
The Kansas- Nebraska was an agreement to give Kansas and Nebraska the choice of popular sovereighny and moved the railroad into the North. -
Repulican Party Forms
The Repulican PArty formed because the Whig Party broke apart due to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Republicans were primarily dominant in the Nort -
Brooks- Sumner
The Sumner- Brooks incident was an issue where Charles Sumner was beaten by Preston Brooks in the Senate. Sumner was giving a speech and it angered Brooks. Brooks responded by beating Sumner with a cane. -
John Brown Massacre
John Brown was an abolitionist who demanded that slavery be outlawed. Brown killed 5 pro-slavery people. He later died for slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was the name given to Knasas due to bloodshed. John Brown murdered five people and the anit-slavery capital was burned. these events continued for many years -
Dred Scott
The Dred Scott case wass a major case in Supreme Court histroy. the Sumpreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was a slave and had no rights to sue his owner for freedom. -
Lecompton Constitution
The Lecompton Constitution was the constitution that Kansas came up with as their state constitution. The constitution was written so that eitherway that the people voted, slavery would be legal. Tjis angered many people. -
Panic of 1857
The Panic of 1857 was caused by the over speculation of land and all the gold flooding the banking system. Many people went to banks to get their money, but the banks didnt have all their monmey and riots broke out. -
Tariff of 1857
the national tariff was at 20 percent, but when the panic og 1857 struck, the traiff was brought back up to its orginal percentage. -
The Impending Crisis of the South
This book was written by Hinton Helper. It was not as popular as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book stated that southeren non slave owning whites suffered the msot, not the actual slaves. -
Lincoln Douglass debates
The Lincoln-Douglass debated were a series of 7 debates spread across Illinios for the last seat in the Illinios senate. The major outcome of these was that Douglass won the debates, but winning the debates would cost him the presidency later on. -
Harpers Ferry
This was John Brown's last attempt at helping slavery. His plan was to raid the fd=ederal armory at harpers Ferry and supply slaves with weapons so that they could rebel and win their freedom. the slaves never came and Brown was caught and hanged. He was seen as a martyr. -
Lincoln wins elecetion of 1860
Lincoln won the election by not winning the popular vote, the first president to do so. Contoversy would follow as South Carolina and several other staes seceded. A civil war would follow. -
Souht Carolina.
South Carolina threatened that if Lincoln won the elecetion, that they would secede. Lincoln won and South Carolina followed through on their word.
