APUSH Ch. 19
Term that described the prairie territory where a small-scale civil war erupted in 1856
"Bleeding Kansas"
Period between Lincoln's election and his inauguration, during which the ineffectual president Buchanan remained in office
"lame-duck" period
Anti-immigrant party headed by former President Fillmore that competed with Republicans and Democrats in the election of 1856
Know-Nothing Party
Tricky proslavery document designed to bring Kansas into the Union but blocked by Stephen A. Douglas
Lecompton Constitution
Thoughtful political discussions during an Illinois senate campaign that sharply defined national issues concerning slavery
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Sharp economic decline that increased northern demands for a high tariff and convinced southerners that the North was economically vulnerable
Panic of 1857
Southern Congressman whose bloody attack on a northern senator fueled sectional hatred
Preston Brooks
First state to secede from the Union, in December 1860
South Carolina
Leading northern Democrat whose presidential hopes fell victim to the conflict over slavery
Stephen A. Douglas
A book by a southern writer that argued slavery especially oppressed poor whites
The Impending Crisis of the South
A powerful, personal novel that altered the course of American politics
Uncle Tom's Cabin
In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court
avoided controversy by ruling that Dred Scott had no right to sue in federal court
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
greatly strengthened northern anti-slavery feeling
Lincoln rejected the proposed Crittenden Compromise because
it permitted the further extension of slavery south of the 36* 30' line
The panic of 1857 encouraged the South to believe that
its economy was fundamentally stronger that that of the North
The fanatical abolitionist John Brown made his first entry into violent antislavery politics by
killing five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas
During the campaign of 1860, Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party
opposed the expansion of slavery but made no statements threatening to abolish slavery in the South
Within two months after the election of Lincoln
seven southern states had seceded and formed the Confederate States of America
Hinton R. Helper's The Impending crisis of the South contended that
slavery deeply harmed the poor whites of the South
In the campaign of 1860, the Democratic Party
split in two, with each faction nominating its own presidential candidate
The election of 1856 was most noteworthy for
the absence of the slavery issue from the campaign
As presented to Congress, the Lecompton Constitution provided for
the admission of Kansas as a slave state
The Sumner-Brooks affair revealed
the violent disagreements about slavery were being felt in the halls of Congress
Southerners were particularly enraged by the John Brown affair because
they believed Brown's violent abolitionist sentiments were shared by the whole North
The conflict over slavery in Kansas
was greatly escalated by abolitionist-funded settlers and pro-slavery "border ruffians" from Missouri
A key issue in the Lincoln-Douglas debate was
whether the people of a territory could prohibit slavery in light of the Dred Scott decision
Rifles paid for by New England abolitionists and brought to Kansas by anti-slavery pioneers
Beecher's Bible
A new nation that proclaimed its independence in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1861
Confederate states of America
Newly formed middle-of-the-road party of elderly politicians that sought compromise in 1860, but carried only three Border States
Constitutional Union Party
A last ditch plan to save the Union by providing guarantees for slavery in the territories
Crittenden Compromise
Black Slave whose unsuccessful attempt to win his freedom deepened the sectional controversy
Dred Scott
Controversial Supreme Court ruling that blacks had no civil and human rights and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories
Dred Scott case
Four-way race for the presidency that resulted in the election of a sectional minority president
Election of 1860
