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John Brown
John Brown was born on May 9th, 1800. Brown was an abolitionist who supported the use of armed uprisings to conquer/overthrow slavery in the United States. He was best known for leading a small group of volunteers during the Bleeding Kansas Crisis of 1856. John Brown helped create tensions between the North and the South, because of the Bleeding Kansas crisis, the North wanted to stop slavery but South did not. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin first appearance was on June 1851. Harriet Beecher Stowe created Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It was made after seeing fugitive slaves and the underground railroad, so she had written this novel as a reaction to tightened fugitive slave laws. This increased tensions between the North and the South as Many of the Northerners, if not all of them had noticed how unjust slavery was and with the increasing opposition to slavery, the Southern slave owners worked to try to defend slavery. -
Republican Party
The Republican Party was formed on March 20th, 1854. They believe in a strong national government. Groups that were involved in forming the Republican Party were Abolitionists and conscience Whigs. It was made to help combat the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery into American territories. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska Act was passed on May 30th 1854. This act was passed to allow people to enter the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide if they would allow slavery within their borders. It was intended to split it up into two equal territories, but ended up in conflict and violence with pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces. Tensions between occurred from this because Northerners were angry that the ban of slavery under the Missouri Compromise was ended -
Bloody Kansas
It happened in 1854 and would open the North to slavery. Northerners were outraged while the Southerners were happy because of this. In an era that would come to be known as "Bleeding Kansas," the territory would become a battleground over the slavery question, as both, the North and South fought over if slavery should be banned or allowed in this territory. The tensions between these groups also happened because of the turmoil in Kansas. -
Brooks Sumner Indcident
The Brooks Sumner Incident happened on May 22nd, 1856. A Pro-slavery Democratic known as Preston Brooks had used a cane to Attack Senator Charles Sumner in the United States Senate. This attack was in response to a speech that Sumner had made which attacking the institution of slavery and some pro-slavery senators. This increased tensions between the North and South because of the attack, so the Northerners were upset, and because of the speech the Southerners were upset. -
Election of 1856
November 4th, 1856. The Presidential Nominees were James Buchanan, John C. Fremont, and Millard Fillmore. The main point of this was when Fremont had publicly announced the expansion of slavery, while Buchanan warned that the Republicans were extremists whose victory would lead to civil war. ... Buchanan won a plurality of the popular vote and a majority of the electoral vote, taking all but one slave state and five free states. -
LeCompton Constitution
The Le Compton Constitution was a constitution drafted for Kansas Territory, was written by pro-slavery supporters. The document permitted slavery, excluded free blacks from living in Kansas, and allowed only male citizens of the United States to vote. -
Dred Scott
The Dred Scott vs. Sanford case was on March 6th, 1857. Dred was an enslaved African American in the United States and once his master died, he tried to sue the masters widow for his freedom along with his and their two daughters since since they lived as a resident of a free state and territory. He won his suit in a lower court, but the Missouri supreme court reversed the decision -
Lincoln Douglass Debate
August 21st, 1858-October 15th, 1858.The main topic of this debate was the issue was of slavery’s expansion into the territory. The significance of this debate was that Illinois had become a free state but it was focused on slavery in the United States. -
House Divided Speech
The House Divided Speech was on June 16, 1858. It was A speech made by Abraham Lincoln to the Illinois Republican convention in 1858. ... He asserted that the conflict would not stop until a crisis was reached and passed, -
Harper's Ferry
October 16th-18, 1859. The Harper’s Ferry event was when John Brown had lead a small group to a federal armory in Harper's Ferry, Virginia. to get weapons and free slaves to have a slave revolt. This event had increased tensions between Northerners and Southerners because the North agreed South should revolt but they were nervous. And because of the fact that the North wanted to stop slavery and the South didn’t, it helped the start of the Civil War. -
Election of 1860
In this election that happened on November 6th, 1860, Abraham Lincoln had received more popular votes in the United States than any of the other candidates and had won a majority of the electoral votes -
South Carolina Secession
This was on November 10th, 1860 and was about when South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States. -
Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address
Lincoln’s 1st Inaugural Address was on March 4th, 1861. Lincoln used his inaugural address to declare his constitutional intentions as the incoming president
