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Uncle Tom's Cabin
This was a book that talked about the feeling on slavery. Harriet Beecher's book widened the North and Souths perspective on their point of views. It also helped in the election of 1860. This was a cause of the civil war. -
Bloody Kansas
This described the period of where tension occurred when Kanas was starting to settle in. The significance was that it pushed the North and South apart from what they were already. This was also a big cause for why the Civil War happened. -
Republican Party
In 1854 the people that were against slavery met up in the midwestern states to create a new party. Soon after the republican party started they started getting people from the North. A while after Lincoln was elected as president and soon after South Carolina split from the union. Six weeks later 5 other states followed South Carolina's lead and soon after the civil war began. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
In 1850s settlers wanted to take over Nebraska but they couldn't because they couldn't legally make it their land. The southern states were not in no hurry to give the Nebraska territory up because it was North of the 36-30 parallel which also made the North mad.Slavery already was not allowed in Missouri because of the Compromise of 1820 it kept the union together for 34 years. Both parties were having conflict because the north and the south were having different opinions about the bill. -
Election 1856
This election was held in the midst of Kansas. This was the first voting divided in rigid selectional lines. Buchanan won 174 electoral votes to 114 for Fermont. Fermont didn't get a single vote in the south of the Mason Dixon line but he had several free states. If 2 more states would have voted for him the republicans would have won. -
Brooks-Sumner incident
Senator Charles Summer made a “abolitionist speech” which insulted SC Senator Andrew Butler. Butler's nephew ended up hearing about Sumner's Speech and wanted revenge so he later beat him with his cane which made him go into a coma. From this beating that Butler's nephew did on Sumners it only caused more tension between the North and the South. -
Dred Scott
He thought African Americasn couldn't be US citizens. This created tension between the North and South. This helped contribute to the Republican party where they were deciding if Kansas should be a free state or slave state. -
House Divided Speech
Democrats that were representing all the branches “Stephe, Franklin, Roger and James” were the ones that wanted to make slavery national. Lincoln wanted to make it where there wasn't half of the country where they did one thing and the other half wanted another thing, that was not how a country should be. The purpose of this speech was to tell his intentions for the United States for the future. -
Lincoln Douglas Debates
November of 1858 Lincoln and republicans won 53% of popular vote. Over time Douglous democratic party split because of slavery.Which angered the south. He then proceeded to win the democratic nomination in 1860 but since southern democrats were agreeing with Breckenridge Douglas only won one state which was Missiouri. Soon after the civil war began. -
LeCompton Constitution
This was a pro slavery ‘consituiton’ which was written for the Kansas admission which went agianst the anti-slavery Topeka Consistuition. President Buchanan got his support from the Southern Derms, but there were more northern democrats that were against the Constitution. Which made it later for the Constitution to never pass the house. -
John Brown
John Brown was hung becasue he was charged with trason, murder and insurrection. Brown was agaisnt slavery and he was a big part of Harpers Ferry. Many people looked up to him for standing up against slavery and other thought he was a ciminal becasue people were killed during the revolt. -
Secession
This was when 11 slave states from the Lincoln election followed him. A new form of government was developed and followed the Declaration of Independence. The South still wanted slaves while the North didn't. -
Election 1860
The election of 1860 caused divisions between the United states. It put democrats against republicans. In the final election results the North had many more people than the south. Lincoln carried all of the North states and didn't get any southern states. It shows different views on slavery with the south and north. -
Lincoln's 1" inaugural Address
This speech was made for the people of the South. Lincoln wanted the nation to be all together and if they didn't agree with him the Southern states would answer back to their aggression. The main reason for this speech was to prevent war and wanted peace. Licoln claimed that the Consitution provided for slavery which Lincoln was not in favor of. -
Harper's Ferry
John Brown was the leader of the Harper Ferry back then when it was Virginia and now West virginia. This was an attempt to stop the institution of slavery with a raid. During the raid one of Brown's sons was killed. The raid ended up failing and it caused tension between the north and the south. Then this led to the civil war.