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| Uncle Tom's Cabin put on the stage for lengthy runs |
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| wrote "the Impending Crisis of the South" another trouble-brewing book. A nonaristocratic white from N.C. He hated both slavery & blacks. He wrote the book w/ statistics that tried to show the non-slaveholding whites were the ones who suffered the most from slavery (indirectly) |
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| new breech-loading sharps rifles named after Reverend Henry Ward Beecher (Harriet's brother) who helped raise money for their purchase |
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| obsessively dedicated to the abolitionist cause. Led a band of his followers to Pottawatomie Creek & hacked to pieces 5 "proslaveryites" |
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| succeeded President Pierce. He was also strongly influenced by the South. Supported the Lecompton Constitution |
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| (of MA) was a leading abolitionist & one of the few prominent in political life. One of the most disliked men in the Senate (bad attitude). Speech condemning proslaveryites. Brooks beat him w/ a cane for that |
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| hot tempered. the comments made by Sumner would origionally call for a duel, but he chastised the Senator w/ the cane instead |
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| James Buchanan/ Democrats. John C. Fremont/ Republican. Know-Nothings/ Millard Fillmore. Buchanan won in electoral & popular vote |
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| Dred Scott lived in the North w/ his master & he sued because he had lived so long on free soil. He was black & a slave though so he couldn't make a case. The court decided Congress didn't get to ban slavery even if the people of the territory wanted that |
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| California gold helped to inflate currency. Speculation on land & RR split the economic fabric. When collapse came, 5,000+ businesses failed within a year. Unemployment and hunger followed |
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| passed in 1860. Made public lands available at a nominal sum of $.25 an acre. |
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| enacted due to a large Treasury surplus, responding to pressures of the south, reduced duties to about 20% |
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| born into poverty he was self-educated studied las and married above himself. Known as "honest Abe." he ran for Senate to get Douglas's spot. A republican. Became one of the foremost politicians & orators |
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| Lincoln challenged Douglas to a series of joint debates. (Douglas was prob. best debator) Most famous was when he asked Douglas about Dred Scott decision which forced Douglas to say the people's choice would come before the court's |
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| John Brown led a handful of followers into the South so they might arm the slaves & help them rise up. He seized the federal arsenal incidentally killing 7 innocent people including 1 free black. The ignorant slaves didn't rise & Brown & him band were captured. Brown was hanged |
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| the "old gentlemans's" party. consisted of former whigs and know nothings |
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| proposed by james crittenden of KY they were amendments to be added to the Constitution to appease the South. Slavery in the territories was to be prohibited N of 36 30 but s of that line was to be given federal protection. No more popular sovereignty. Lincoln rejected it |
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