Chapter 19 Flashcards
Antislavery tract, written by white Southerner Hinton R. Helper, arguing that non slaveholding whites actually suffered most in a slave economy?
The Impending Crisis of the South (1857)
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s read novel that dramatized the horrors of slavery. Heightened Northern support for abolition and escalated the sectional conflict?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Organization created to facilitate the migration of free laborers to Kansas in order to prevent the establishment of slavery in the territory.
New England Emigrant Aid Company
Proposed Kansas constitution, who ratification was unfairly rigged so as to guarantee slavery in the territory. Initially ratified by proslavery forces, it was later voted down when Congress required that the entire constitution be put up for a vote.
Lecompton Constitution
Civil war in Kansas over the issue of slavery in the territory, fought intermittently until 1861, when it merged with the wider national Civil War.
Bleeding Kansas (1856-1861)
Supreme Court decision that extended federal protection to slavery by ruling that Congress did not have the power to prohibit slavery in any territory. Also declared that slaves, as property, were not citizens of the United States?
Dred Scott V. Stanford.
Financial crash brought on by gold-fueled inflation, over speculation, and excess grain production. Raised calls in the North for higher tariffs and for free homesteads on western public lands?
Panic of 1857
Lowered duties on imports in response to a high treasury surplus and pressure from Southern farmers.
Tariff of 1857
Series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass during the U.S. Senate race in Illinois . Douglas won the election but Lincoln gained national prominence and emerged as the leading candidate for 1860?
Lincoln-Douglas debate
Raised during one of the Lincoln-Douglas debated by Abraham Lincoln who asked wether the court or the people should decide the future of slavery in the territories?
Freeport Question
Douglas’s response to Lincoln that declared that the people of a territory would have the final say on the slavery question not the Supreme Court.
Freeport Doctrine (1858)
Federal arsenal in Virginia seized by abolitionist John Brown?
Harpers Ferry
Party formed by moderate Whigs and Know-Nothings in an effort to elect a compromise candidate and avert a sectional crisis?
Constitutional Union Party (1860)
Government established after 7 southern states seceded from the Union . Lated joined by four more states from the upper south.
Confederate States of America (1861-1865)
Proposed in an attempt to appease the South, the failed Constitutional amendments would have given federal protection for slaver in all territories outside of 36 deg 30’.
Crittenden Amendments
Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Brother of Uncle Tom’s Cabin author who helped raise money for the New England Emigrant Aid Company
Henry Ward Beecher
15th U.S. President who supported the Lecompton Constitution, and split his party
James Buchanan
An abolitionist who delivered a speech against popular sovereignty and South Carolina. Got beat up in the chamber by Preston S. Brooks?
Charles Sumner
South Carolina Senator who beat up Charles Sumner because he insulted South Carolina.
Preston S. Brooks
A slave that unsuccessfully attempted to sue for freedom . His case led to the Supreme Court deciding that congress does not have the power to prohibit slavery.
Dred Scott
Souther Supreme Court Justice that led the decision of the Dred Scott case.
Roger B. Taney
Senator of Illinois who beat Lincoln, but lost his chance for presidency.
Stephen A. Douglas
16th U.S. President who did a lot?
Abraham Lincoln
