Chapter 19 - Drifting Towards Disunion

John Brown

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