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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a story written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The story revolves around the life and death of a slave. This story controversy as the South thought it was a gross misrepresentation of was slavery was, and thought that it painted slavery is a worse light than it really was. The abolistionists of the North took the story and used it as a point in ending slavery, since they believed it showed the horrors of slavery realistically. -
Foundation of the Republican Party
In 1854, the Republican Party was founded to fight against the expansion of slavery as the country expanded. It was foundedafter the Kansas-Nebraska Act, in which slavery could spread into areas in which it was previously outlawed in. -
Nebraska-Kansas Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an act put in place that made some of the unorganized territory in the United States into the states Nebraska and Kansas. This act also repealed the Missouri Compromise and made it to where slavery could move into the areas in which it was illegal beforehand. -
Bloody Kansas
Bloody Kansas was an attack in Kansas on antislavery businesses and abolitionists by proslavery settlers in 1856. Since slavery could exist in areas in which is was illegal to previously, proslavery settlers from the South went up to the Kansas territory and the state and attacked those who wanted to abolish slavery. They did this to hopefully spread slavery into the area, yet that did not happen. -
Brooks-Sumner Incident
Preston Brooks, a proslavery Representative from South Carolina attacked antislavery Senator Charles Sumner from Massachusetts. Brooks attacked Sumner while he was giving a speech that critized those in office who supported slavery. This violence was one of the evens that lead up to the Civil War between the two halves of the nation. -
Election of 1856
Since the creation of the Republican Party, more canidates were running in elections. The winner of this election was James Buchanan, who was a democratic politician and lawyer. During his inaugural address, he said that slavery was an issue for the states an territories to deal with. This was again controversial because neither state wanted what the other sde wanted. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave that was carried up to a state where slavery was illegal. He made the case that because he was in a free state, he was free. It was decided that even though he was in a free state, he was still declared as property. This decision was one of the most controversial decisions that the court made concerning slavery and human rights. -
LeCompton Constitution
The LeCompton Consitution was drafted as a bill of rights that excluded the rights of freed black people, and protect slave owners and slaveholding in the state of Kansas. -
House Divided Speech
Lincoln’s House Divided Speech was an address given to the nation that said that if the country was divided in the way it thinks politically, then the nation cannot function correctly. He said “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Because of the split in the country between whether or not slavery should or shouldn’t be illegal, the country could not fuction. -
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Lincoln Douglas Debates
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates were seven debates between presidential candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. These debates mainly focused on the issue of whther or not slavery should be legal all around the country, or whether it should be aboolished. -
Harper’s Ferry
The raid on Harper’s Ferry was a raid that was organized by John Brown. The raid was to gain weapons for slaves to use in slave revolts to get out of slavery in the southern states. -
John Brown Execution
John Brown lead the raid on Harper’s Ferry, and in turn was executed for helping slaves revolt against their masters. Since it was illegal to try and help slaves escape, he was given the death sentence for oganizing a raid on the United States arsenal. -
Election of 1860
Four candidites ran for the election fo 1860, in which Abraham Lincoln won presidency. This election was split between the candidites, and Lincoln won out through the Electoral College. -
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Secession Timespan
The secession was a time in which eleve states left the Union. These states elft because of the issue of slavery, and states rights in which they believed their rights as states were not being upheld. These states also left because slavery was being challenged in the United States. -
Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
Lincoln’s First Inaugral Address was an address to the nation, stating that Lincoln had no interest in interfering with slavery in places that it was already ilegal in, and that the Union should stay whole in order for the country to run smoothly.