Civil War

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  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the life of a slave named Tom from his own perspective, which some people claimed to be overdramatic and unrealistic (thse being Southern slave owner), and it gave people a different view of the slaves hardships, changed their views on slavery and African Americans, and was said to have helped lay some of the groundwork for the Civil War

  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    Allowed the people in the Kansas & Nebraska territory to rule with popular sovereignty over the issue of slavery & decide whether they wanted to be slave or free states. It was believed that Kansas, as it was south, would be proslavery, & Nebraska would be antislavery, and there would be equal representation in Congress, but antislavery forces were heavy in Kansas & wanted it to come in as a free state. Conflicts rose in the territory and eventually led to an outbreak of fighting between sides.

  • Republican Party

    This part emerged in 1854 to combat the Kansas Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery. It mostly consisted of African-Americans, northern white Protestants, businessmen, professionals, factory workers, and farmers. Abraham Lincoln became the first republican president, and the republican party largely dominated until 1932.

  • Lincoln Douglas Debates

    7 debates between Democrat Stephen Douglas, and Republican Abraham Lincoln about slavery. Lincoln was running for Douglas’s seat in the Senate. Douglas tried to label Lincoln as a dangerous radical who advocated racial equality & disruption of the Union, while Lincoln attacked popular sovereignty & moral inequity of slavery. Lincoln lost but received more popular votes, signaling a shift in the political character, & helped lead him to being mentioned as a candidate for the presidency.

  • Harper's Ferry-

    John Brown, an abolitionist and leader in the Bloody Kansas movement, attempted to arm slaves by breaking into a military arsenal and taking the weapons to give to the slaves so they could revolt for their freedom. In the end, John Brown was captured by Colonel Robert E. Lee and 10 of his men were killed, including two of his sons. This incident only made tensions between the North and South worse, and Brown was seen as a martyr for the anti-slavery movement.

  • John Brown

    John Brown was a radical abolitionist best known for his attempt to arm slaves and have them rebel against their masters. For this, and his arsenal raid, he was executed and became seen as a martyr for the abolition movement. His court hearing and arsenal raid took place in present-day West Virginia, then-Virginia, a state run by plantation owners, so the court ruled directly that he had committed treason and should be hanged for his actions against the national government.