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| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin; writing helped start and win the war. |
| Hinton R. Helper | Author of The Impending Crisis of the South; hated slaves and blacks; tried to prove non-slaveholding whites were the ones that suffered. |
| John Brown | Militant abolitionist; tried to go to the South and get all the slaves to revolt in order to forma black free state. |
| James Buchanan | Democrat; presidential candidate in the election of 1856 and won. |
| Charles Sumner | Senator of Massachusetts. Was beaten with a cane by Preston S. Brooks. |
| John C. Freemont | "Pathfinder of the West;" Republican; Candidate in the election of 1856. |
| Dred Scott | Black slave; Sued for freedom; Lost.l |
| Roger Taney | From Maryland. Justice who wrote the majority opinion against Dred Scott in Dred Scott v. Sanford. He also ruled that congress had no authority to prohibit slavery from extending into the territories. |
| John C. Breckenridge | From Kentucky; Favored extension of slavery into the territories and annexation of Cuba |
| John Bell | Nominated for presidency by the Constitutional Union Pary; from Tennessee |
| Abraham Lincoln | Honest Abe; Ran for Senate in 1858 (lost) and presidency in 1860 (won). |
| Jefferson Davis | Chosen as Confederate president in 1861. |
| John Crittenden | Proposed new last minute amendments to appease the South (the Crittenden Compromise); From Kentucky. |
| Self-determination | Self-imposed determination; Needed to get things done. |
| Southern nationalism | The belief that the South knows what's right. |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | A book that showed the harsh life of a slave in the U.S. Helped to forge an anti-slavery coalition in the North; written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. |
| The Impending Crises of the South | A book that proved by an array of statistics that indirectly the non-slaveholding whites suffered from slavery; written by Hinton R. Helper |
| New England Immigrant Aid Society | Sent 2000 people to troubled area to forestall the south and also to make a profit. |
| Pottawatomie Creek Massacre | Led by John Brown. Five proslaveryites literally hacked to pieces; brouth severe retaliation from proslavery cause. |
| Lecompton Constitution | People not allowed vote for or against the constitution as a whole, but had to vote for the constituiton either "with slavery" or "with no slavery." |
| "Bleeding Kansas" | Term used to describe the state due to its political mishaps. |
| American Know-Nothing Party | Antiforeign and anti-Catholic beliefs; nominated Fillmore for presidency. |
| Dred Scott Decision | Black slave sued for preedom, lost because Court ruled Compromise of 1820 unconstitutional. Stated that Congress had no power to ban slavery from the territories, regardless even of what the territorial legislatures themselves might want. |
| Panic of 1857 | North hit hardest; South did just fine with cotton growth. |
| Lincoln-Douglas debates | Lincoln challenged Douglas to a series of debates in which were held in seven different meetings. |
| Freeport Doctrine | Answer to Lincoln's Freeport question: Suppose the people should vote slavery down despite the will of Congress? What if Congress passed a law supporting slavery that the people did not want? Slavery must then be abolished. |
| Harper's Ferry raid | Led by John Brown; antislavery raid which slaves failed to aid and therefore Brown was executed. Brown becomes a martyr for the abolitonist cause. |
| Constitutional Union Party | Feared fot he sake of the Union; Compose of Know-Nothings and Whigs |
| Crittenden Compromise | Amendments which appealed to the South; requested protection for slave states under 36-30 line. |
