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