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Dred Scott
A slave who sued his master's brother-in-law, later took place in the Supreme Court... and lost because the majority of the Supreme Court considered slaves as property. -
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John Brown
An abolitionist who planned the raid to Harper's Ferry to steal the weapons and give it to the slaves. He got tried for treason, later he got hanged. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. A book about slavery when the tension between the North and South were hostile. -
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Bloody Kansas
Violence in the Kansas territory because Northerners wanted Kansas to be a free state and Southerner wanted Kansas to be a slave state, so they fought each other. -
Republican Party
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
A bill which introduced popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide whether the states should be a free or slave state. -
Brooks-Sumner Incident
A fight broke out on the Senate Chamber between Preston Brooks a Representative of South Carolina and Charles Sumner a Senator of Massachusetts. Brooks went full force with his cane and starting bashing Sumner because he thought that Sumner was talking smack about him. -
Election of 1856
This was a three-way election where Democrat Buchanan defeated Republican Fremont and Know Nothing Fillmore who was the 13th president. -
LeCompton Constitution
A constitution placed by the pro-slavery side in the civil war of Kansas. -
House Divided Speech
A speech given by Abraham Lincoln after receiving the Illinois Republican Party nomination as the state's senator. -
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
A series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. -
Harper's Ferry
An arsenal of the federal government which got raided by John Brown and 17 or 18 others. The raid was unsuccessful. People who where defending the arsenal died. -
Election of 1860
The election when Abraham Lincoln became the 16th President of the United States. -
Secession
Eleven states decided to leave the Union, which eventually leads to the Civil War. -
Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address
A speech given by Abraham Lincoln after taking oath in office