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Missouri Compromise

In 1857: Supreme Courts Dred Scott decision permitted slavery in all WEstern territories, invalidating the ________ of 1820, Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856) In a decision that later was nullified by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, the Supreme Court held that former slaves did not have standing in federal courts because they lacked U.S. citizenship, even after they were freed.

Hinton R Helper

________, a non- aristocrat from North Carolina, wrote The Impending Crisis of the South in 1857.

James Buchanan

________, a Democrat, succeeded Pierce as the President of the United States in the election of 1856.

Lecompton Constitution

The ________ is a pro- slavery document.

Montgomery

The 7 seceders met at ________, Alabama in February 1861 and created a government known as the Confederate States of America.

Abolitionist John Brown

________ developed a plan to secretly invade the South, call upon the slaves to rise, give the slaves weapons, and establish a black free state.In October 1859, he seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

________, who was white, published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852 as an attempt to show the North the horrors of slavery.

Constitutional Union Party

The ________ was formed by former Whigs and Know- Nothings.

inrush of Californian

The panic of 1857 was caused by over- speculation in the West and currency inflation due to the ________ gold.

John Brown

________: fanatical abolitionist who, in May of 1856**,** hacked to death 5 presumed pro- slavery men at Pottawatomie Creek in response to the pro- slavery events in Lawrence.

Dread Scott

________, a slave who had lived with his master for 5 years in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory, sued for his freedom on the basis of his long residence on free soil.

Stephen A Douglas

________: senator who tried to break the North- South deadlock over westward expansion; proposed the Territory of Nebraska to be sliced into two.

In 1857

Supreme Courts Dred Scott decision permitted slavery in all WEstern territories, invalidating the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856) In a decision that later was nullified by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, the Supreme Court held that former slaves did not have standing in federal courts because they lacked U.S. citizenship, even after they were freed

This gave the Republicans two economic issues for the election of 1860

  protection for the unprotected and farms for the farmless

Stephen A. Douglas

senator who tried to break the North-South deadlock over westward expansion; proposed the Territory of Nebraska to be sliced into two

John Brown

fanatical abolitionist who, in May of 1856**,** hacked to death 5 presumed pro-slavery men at Pottawatomie Creek in response to the pro-slavery events in Lawrence