A Divided Nation, Chpt 18 YEs
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- Harpers Ferry
- location of raid whose purpose was to aid the abolitionists' cause
- John Brown
- tried and sentence to death for the Harpers Ferry raid
- Kansas
- area that antislavery and pro-slavery groups competed to determine the slavery question due to popular sovereignty
- free-soilers
- antislavery settlers in Kansas
- sectionalism
- devotion to the interests of one region instead of to the country as a whole
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- person who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Henry Clay
- person who offered a series of proposals to address all of the current issues of sectional disagreement
- Dred Scott decision
- Supreme Court ruling that African Americans were not citizens according to the U.S. Constitution
- Kansas
- had 2 territorial governments, pro-slavery and antislavery
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- 1854, divided rest of Louisiana Purchase into 2 territories in which the slavery question would be decided by popular sovereignty
- Wilmot Proviso
- proposal that stated that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude would ever exist in any part of the Mexican Cession
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- powerful antislavery novel
- Pottawatomie Massacre
- John Brown and associates killed 5 pro-slavery men in Kansas
- Lincoln-Douglas debates
- held in Illinois in 1858 whose central issues involved slavery and its future in the West
- South Carolina
- called for a special convention four days after Lincoln's election to consider secession
- James Buchanan
- Democrat who won the 1856 election; carried 14 of 15 slave states
- Sack of Lawrence
- occurred when pro-slavery posse was sent to arrest free state leaders and burned the town
- Jefferson Davis..
- elected President of the Confederacy in 1861
- Free-Soil Party
- endorsed the Wilmot Proviso and chose former president Martin Van Buren of NY as its candidate for President
- South Carolina
- first state to secede from the Union after Lincoln's election to the Presidency
- Dred Scott decision
- Supreme Court ruling that slaves were property / chattel
- Confederate States of America
- new nation formed from seceding states in 1861
- Millard Fillmore
- presidential candidate in the election of 1856 representing the Know-Nothing Party
- Freeport Doctrine
- Stephen Douglas' explanation that Congress could allow the citizens of that territory to ban slavery even if Congress could not ban slavery from a federal territory
- Fugitive Slave Act
- law that made it a federal crime to assist runaway slaves and allowed slaves to be arrested even in areas where slavery was illegal
- popular sovereignty
- principle that would allow voters in a particular territory to decide whether they wanted to ban or permit slavery
- Franklin Pierce
- man who swore to honor the Compromise of 1850 and enforce the Fugitive Slave Act
- Compromise of 1850
- series of decisions that seemed to be a final settlement of the slavery controversy
- Reverend Henry W. Beecher
- sent rifles to Kansas in boxes marked Bibles for free-soilers
- Abraham Lincoln
- elected President in the election of 1860 without carrying a single southern state
- Kansas
- collapsed into a state of civil war after Pottawatomie Massacre
- Republican Party
- formed in 1854 by people opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Constitutional Union Party
- formed during the election of 1860
- John Brown!
- man who led raid on Harpers Ferry
- Crittenden Compromise
- rejected by every Republican in the Senate
- Senator Charles Sumner
- beaten unconscious with a cane by Representative Preston Brooks over slavery opinions
- Whig Party
- fell apart completely because of the Kansas-Nebraska Act