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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in the United States in 1852. It was an abolitionist novel that achieved wide popularity, particularly among the North. This was due to vividly dramatizing the experience of slavery. This raised tensions between the North and South for the misinterpretation of slavery. The novel tells the story of Uncle Tom and enslaved person with the harsh conditions of slavery. -
Republican Party
The Republican Party was founded by former members of the Whigs on 1854. Anti slavery Whigs gathered up to discuss the formation of a new party. Then on March 20, 1854 is when the Republican Party was formed. Their concepts consisted of the stoppage of the overall spread of slavery across the United States and wanted to preserve the Union. Most of their supporters came from the North. The South saw them as a threat. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska Act was a bill presented by Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois in 1854. The Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote. -
Bloody Kansas
Bloody Kansas was a name to describe the period of repeated outbreaks of violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces, from 1855 to 1859, following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854. Where popular sovereignty would allow the people to decide whether the territory would be a free state or a slave state. -
Brooks-Sumner lncident
Shortly after the Senate had adjourned for the day, Brooks entered the old chamber, where he found Sumner busily attaching his postal frank to copies of his "Crime Against Kansas" speech. Moving quickly, Brooks slammed his cane onto Sumner's head. He did this as retaliation due to Summers speech criticizing slave owners. This resulted in more tensions rising between the North and South. -
Election 1856
The election was held on November 4, 1856. In which Democrat James Buchanan defeated Republican John C. Frémont with 174 electoral votes. This election enraged both sides the North and South. With the newly created party of the Republicans and how they came close to winning over the Democrats. Then would later set the stage for the election of 1860. -
LeCompton Constitution
The Lecompton Constitution was a document framed in Lecompton, the Capital of Kansas, in 1857 by Southern pro-slavery advocates of the Kansas statehood. It contained clauses protecting slaveholding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks. This aided in the leading up to the U.S. Civil War. -
Dred Scott
Dred Scott was an enslaved person who would travel with his owner to free state and territory. During the Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, he wanted freedom and they ruled that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory would not gain freedom; that African Americans were not citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise, was unconstitutional. The decision added fuel moving both sides to the civil war. -
House Divided Speech
On June 16, 1858, at the Illinois Republican convention in Springfield, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that would come to be known as the "House Divided" speech. Lincoln believed that the recent Supreme Court decision on the Dred Scott case would lead to the legalization of slavery in all states. Referring to the court's decision which permitted Dred Scott to live in a free state and yet remain a slave. He did this in order to enforce people to take action against slavery. -
Lincoln Douglas Debates
The Lincoln Douglas debates, were a series of seven debates between the Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas and Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln. These debates took place from August 21, 1858 to October 15, Illinois senatorial campaign, largely concerning the issue of slavery extension into the territories. -
John Brown
John Brown was an American abolitionist. He believed that he was chosen by God in order to end slavery. John Brown led a raid on the armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859. In which that he hoped would spark a slave rebellion. It made him a martyr to the antislavery cause and was instrumental in heightening sectional animosities that led to the American Civil War. As a result of his raid in Harpers Ferry he was hanged. -
Harpers Ferry
Harpers Ferry was a raid, otherwise known as the Raid of Harpers Ferry. This raid was led by John Brown, an American abolitionist. Brown seized guns stored in an armory in seek of a slave rebellion on October 16, 1859. The raid lasted two days ending on October 18. Seventeen men resulted dead from the outbreak. This raised tensions for the Civil War between the North and South. Due to this raid John Brown and his six surviving followers resulted in being hang for treason. -
Election 1860
The election of 1860 was held on November 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. Lincoln won with majority of popular vote and electoral vote. Then due to the South seeing Lincoln as a threat to abolishing slavery the seven Southern states, led by South Carolina on December 20, 1860, seceded which set the stage for the American Civil War. -
Lincoln's 1st" inaugural Address
Lincolns inaugural address was in order to hold the union together and prevent civil war. He had a firm stance against secession and reassured the slave states that he had no intention of outlawing slavery since it was something that has always been around, it already existed. -
Secession
Secession happened in the American Civil War. When the eleven Southern states in favor of slavery parted ways from the Union and created their own form of government called the Confederacy. This first happened after the election of 1860 when Lincoln won where seven states initially seceded but then more joined in from the South.