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apush ch 19
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| uncle toms cabin | written by harriet beecher stowe. politically influentail american book that allowed whites to sympathize with slaves and north to disobey fugitive slave law (she never actually had been to the south) |
| the impending crisis of the south | written by hinton helper in 1857 who hated slavery but also blacks.book banned in south |
| election of 1856 | democrats= james buchanan(supported popular soveriegnty) republicans= john fremont (against expansion of slavery) know nothings= millard fillmore (anti immigration) |
| new england emigrant aid company | northern free soilers raise money for anti slave people to live in kansas, south imitated. |
| border ruffians | pro slavery missourians |
| bloody kansas | violence begins to break out in kansas 1 year after neither north or southern kansas gov't is legit |
| john brown | kills 5 southerners in pottawatomie creek, kansas, planned to invade the south and inspire slaves to revolt, captured executed became martyr in north |
| bloody kansas 1856 | proslavery gang burns down free soil town of lawrence |
| lecompton constitution | pro slavery-ites created this constitution to protect current slave owners in kansas |
| democrats split bc | northern democrats are angry buchanan supported the lecompton constitution |
| charles sumner | insulted proslavery southerners in a speech |
| preston brooks | southern senator who attacked charles sumner with a cane after his speech and almost kill him |
| dred scott vs sanford (1857) | dred scott- slave taken to free territory who tried to sue his owner for freedom, supreme court rules african americans cannot sue, cheif justice taney wanted to close issue of slavery instead makes bigger conflict |
| 5th amendment | slaves taken to free states are still slaves, because slaves are property |
| panic of 1857 | north struggles more economically and demands higher tarriffs so republicans gain support w/their promise to meet northern demands |
| lincoln douglas debates | series of famous debates when running against eachother for illinois senator, douglas wins |
| freeport doctrine | douglas says popular sovereignty is superior to the supreme court regarding the dred scott decision |
| harpers ferry (1859) | posse of 20 whites and blacks including john brown seized an arsenal |
| election of 1860 | northern democrats=douglas southern democrats= breckinridge Constitutional Union(new party)=bell, republicans=lincoln |
| lincolns platform | nonextension of slavery, protective tarriffs, northern railroad, free government land, not an abolitionist (earned 40% of popular vote but majority of electoral vote) |
| south carolina secession | 4 days after the election, south carolina votes for secession convention |
| confederate states of america | started february 186, president jefferson davis |
| crittenden amendment | senator james crittenden proposed constitutional amendment that would make slavery legal in south 36' 30' and illegal north of this line but lincoln refused to sign |
| reasons for secession | -slaver -northern majority - sucess of republicans/growth of abolitionism -didnt think north would try to stop them |