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Terms | Definitions |
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 Uncle Tom's Cabin | No other novel had such a profound impact in politics. It made slavery appear as the incredible evil it was. Helped start the civil war and win it. As a result thousands of readers swore to have nothing to do with the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law. Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| The Impending Crisis of the South | attempted to prove that nonslave-holding whites suffered most from slavery. Banned in the south. Hilton R. Helper |
| Lecompton Constitution | devised by proslavery forces, the people were not allowed to vote for or against the constitution as a whole, but for the constitution either "with slavery" or "with no slavery". If they voted against slavery, one of the remaining provisions in the constitution would protect the owners of slaves already in Kansas. There would still be black bondage, regardless of the voting outcome. |
| Bleeding Kansas | a series of violent events, involving ant-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" between 1854-1858. Heart of conflict was whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state or slave state |
| Panic of 1857 | caused by declining international economy, over-expansion of the domestic economy. California gold that raised inflation, speculation in land and railroads, over stimulated grain growing for war in Russia caused the crash. |
| Lincoln-Douglas Debates | a series of 7 debates, main issue was slavery, between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois, and Senator Stephan Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. |
| Dred Scott Case | Ruled that slaves are not citizens but are property, affirmed that property cannot be interfered with by Congress, slaves do not become free if they travel to free territories or states, fueled abolitionist movement, hailed as victory for the south |
| Freeport Doctrine | Douglas' response stated that despite the court's ruling, slavery could be prevented from any territory by the refusal of the people living in that territory |
| Harpers Ferry | Location of John Brown's raid on the Armory in 1859. John Brown became a martyr for the abolitionist cause after his execution |
| Crittenden Amendments | designed to appease the South. Slavery in the territories was to be prohibited north of 36° 30' but south of that line was to be given federal protection. Future states, north or south of 36° 30' could come into the Union with or without slavery, as they chose. Rejected by Lincoln |
| John Brown | abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858) |
| Jefferson Davis | President of Confederacy |
| Roger B Taney | Fifth Chief Justice, the first Roman Catholic to hold the job and was pro-slavery. He wrote the decision on the Dred Scot case. |
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