APUSH Ch. 19 Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Hinton Helper | author of The Impending Crisis of the South, which tried to prove through statistics that hillbilly whites are hurt the most by slavery |
| Beecher's Bibles | breech-loading rifles popular in the time of the Civil War |
| border ruffians | voters who came into Kansas to create a pro-slavery legislature and then left |
| John Brown | abolitionist who came to Kansas and killed 5 supposed pro-slavery men just for funsies |
| Pottawatomie Creek | sight of John Brown's massacre |
| Lecompton Constitution | ploy to protect slave owners in Kansas by limiting the vote of the people; in the end it didn't allow slavery |
| Charles Sumner | leading abolitionist and senator who was highly disliked for his personality |
| Preston Brooks | Congressman who beat Sumner for insulting him |
| James Buchanan | Democratic presidential candidate (winner) in 1856 |
| John C. Fremont | Republican presidential candidate in 1856 |
| American Party | same as the Know-Nothing Party, they hated immigrants |
| Dred Scott | slave living in Illinois who sued for freedom and created a landmark Supreme Court case that defended slavery |
| Roger B. Taney | chief justice on the Dred Scott case |
| Freeport Doctrine | idea from Stephen Douglas that even if the Supreme Court allowed slavery in a state, the people could vote it down |
| Harper's Ferry | sight of John Brown's attempted slave riot |
| Robert E. Lee | man who captured John Brown at Harper's Ferry |
| John C. Breckenridge | Southern Democratic candidate for election in 1860 |
| John Bell | "compromise" candidate from the Constitutional Union Party in 1860 |
| secession | the split of the Southern US from the Union |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederate States of America |
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