Harriet Beecher Stowe
Published Uncle Toms Cabin in 1852, led to the beginning of the Civil War and helped to end it
Uncle Tom's Cabin
a novel about the evils of slavery an injustice of the Fugitive Slave Law
The Impending Crisis of the South
written by Hinton R. Helper, a non-aristocratic white from NC who hated slavery and blacks. tried to convince people that non-slaveholding whites were the ones who suffered most from the millstore of slavey.
New England Emigrant Aid Company
a northern abolitionist group that helped to finance the movement of people to Kansas
John Brown
abolitionist who, in May of 1856 in response to the pro-slavery events in Lawrence, hacked to death 5 presumed pro-slavery men at Pottawatomie Cre
Lecompton Constitution
stated that the people were not allowed to vote for or against the constitution as a whole, rather, they could vote on whether the constitution would be with slavery or without slavery. If slavery was voted against, then one of the provisions in the const
Charles Sumner
senator of Massachusetts. made an intense speech condemning pro-slavery men, also insulting Sou
Preston Brooks
in response to the to speech made by Sumner, he beat him with a cane till he died, on May 22,1856. The clash between Sumner and Butler showed how violent and impassioned the Northerners and Southerners were for their cause.
James Buchanan
democrats presidential candidate to run in the election of 1856 because he wasn't influenced by the Kansas-Nebraska Act as Pierce and Douglas had been
Know-Nothing Party
also known as the American party, formed by Protestants who were alarmed by the increase of immigrants from Ireland and Germany
Dred Scott Decision
a slave who had lived with his master for 5 years in Illinois and Wisconsin Territory, sued for his freedom on the basis of his long residence on free soil.The Supreme Court ruled that because a slave was private property, he could be taken into any terri
Justice Roger B. Taney
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who ruled on the Dred Scott decision and made it politicized
Panic of 1857
broke out due to California gold inflating the currency and over-speculation in land and railroads. It impacted the North the most and since the South had their cotton, they continued to flourish.
Abraham Lincoln
was first the Republican candidate for the Illinois senatorial election of 1858 against Stephen Douglas. Was then nominated for the Republican presidential candidate. Won the election of 1860 but did not win the popular vote.
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Lincoln challenged Douglas to a series of seven debates that were arranged from August to October 1858.
Confederate States of America
the name made by South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, and Texas that seceded from the Union during the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
a recent member of the U.S. Senate from Mississippi that was chosen to be the President of the Confederate States of America
James Henry Crittenden
A senator from kentucky, who attempted to form a compromise to bring the southern states back to the union.
Crittenden Amendment
designed to appease the South,said that slavery in the territories was to be prohibited north of the 36 degree 30states north of the line could come into the Union with or without slavery, depending on what they chose, but below that line, there would alw