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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, Simon Legree abuses slaves. Aided abolition
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George Fitzhugh
wrote Cannibals All! opposed abolition
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Henry Clay
proposed Compromise of 1850
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John C. Calhoun
believed that ending slavery violated right to own property
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John Brown
Killed in order to end slavery, believed that only bloodshed could end it. Attacked pro-slavery settlers and Harpers Ferry
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Charles Sumner
abolitionist Senator from Massachusetts who spoke against slavery, attacked by Preston Brooks
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Preston Brooks
Representative who attacked Charles Sumner in front of Congress
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Dred Scott
Slave who tried to sue for his freedom, court case ruled that slaves can't sue
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Abraham Lincoln
Gradual abolitionist; wanted to prevent the expansion of slavery, not outlaw it initially
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Stephan Douglass
Opposed Lincoln in 7 debates for Illinois Senate; supported popular sovereignty
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William Seward
radicial abolitionist, Republican alternative for candidacy
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Jefferson Davis
CSA president, from Mississippi
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John Crittendon
Senator, opposed war because he had sons he knew would fight on opposite sides
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Fort Sumner
Fort taken by Confederacy via siege; preventy resupplying and
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Nativism
A movement to ensure that native born Americans receive better treatment than immigrants
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Know Nothing Party
promoted the election of pro-slavery leaders
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Kansas/Nebraska Act
proposed by Stephen Douglass, allowed KS and NE popular sovereignty and admission as states
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Democrats
In the south, supported slavery, John Breckinridge and Stephen Douglass
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Republicans
formed by north in response to KS/NE Act, abolitionists, wanted to repeal KS/NE and Fugitive Slave Acts
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Free Soil Party
Opposed expansion of slavery, moved to vote against slavery in Kansas
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Harpers Ferry
Location of an armory attacked by John Brown, junction of Potomac and Shenandoah rivers
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Southern Assets
Defensive war, causes were self determination and self government, best officers, way of life involves fighting
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Northern Assets
farms, industry, population, navy, railroads
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