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John Brown
Was a fanatical abolitionist who hacked 5 presumed pro- slavery men to death at Pottawatomie Creek as a response to teh pro- slavery events in Lawrence
James Buchanan
Won the election of 1856
Constitutional Union Party
Was formed by former Whigs and Know-Nothings
Fifth Amendment
Forbade Congress from depriving people of their property without the due process of law
Civil War in Kansas
Started when a group of pro-slavery riders burned down part of the abolitionist town of Lawrence
Kansas
In 1867 ________ had enough people to apply for statehood with ________ ended up remaining a territory until 1861, when the southern states seceded from the Union.
Lincoln
________ won the election of 1860, but didnt win the popular vote.
American Party
Was formed by Protestants who were alarmed by increasing number of immigrants from Ireland and Germany
Alabama
7 seceding states met in ________ in February of 1861 and created the government of the Confederate States of America.
Hinton R Helper
________ wrote the Impending Crisis of the South in 1857.
New England Emigrant Aid Company
Was a group of abolitionists that paid people to move to Kansas to make it a free state
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Published Uncle Toms Cabin in 1852 as an attempt to show North the horrors of slavery
Abolitionist John Brown
Developed a plan to secretly invade the South, call upon slaves to rise, give them weapons, and establish a black free state
Abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts
Gave a provoking speech that condemned pro- slavery men
Republican Party
________ nominated Abraham Lincoln as their presidential candidate.
Abolitionists
________ set up their own government in Topeka, giving Kansas territory two governments.
Civil War
Started up in Kansas in 1856 until it merged with the nation's civil War from 1861 to 1865
Lincoln
Served in the Illinois legislature as a Whig politician and served one term in Congress
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