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| Harriet Beecher Stowe/Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
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| she was an author. she wrote uncle toms cabin which explained how bad slavery was. it was the number one selling novel. |
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| R. Helper/The Impending Crisis of the South |
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| allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. |
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| were pro-slavery activists from the slave state of Missouri, who in 1854 to 1860 crossed the state border into Kansas Territory, to force the acceptance of slavery there. |
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| John Brown was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. led the rebellion on harpers ferry |
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| a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri. |
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| was when brooks a distan cousin of butlers beat down charles sumner with an 11 ounce metal handled cane. thus causing sumners brain injury, and nerve injury, taking him out of his seat for three years. |
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