APUSH chapter 19

dred scott decision

• allowed slavery in all western territories

• caused by fighting in kansas between slavery and antislavery

• banned slavery in all western territories

• caused by fighting in nebraska between slavery and antislavery

harriet beecher stowe

• white woman who published uncle tom's cabin to show the horrors of slavery

• influenced civil war and northern victory

• helped bring morality into slavery debate

• published and read abroad

new england emigrant aid company

• abolitionists that paid people to move to kansas and vote for it to be a free state (popular sovereignty)

• new england immigrants that were paid to move to kansas and vote for it to be a slave state (popular sovereignty)

border ruffians

• people from Missouri that came to Kansas to vote for pro-slavery officials

• set up gov, but abolitionists set up another gov creating two

• set up gov, but pro-slavery officials set up another gov creating two

• people from Missouri that came to Kansas to vote for abolitionist officials

bleeding kansas

• kansas civil war

• the two kansas governments fought each other

• missouri civil war

john brown

• radical abolitionist

• killed 5 pro-slavery men during a Bleeding Kansas battle

• wanted to invade South and cause a slave uprising

• seized federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, but many supporters didn't show up and he was sentenced to death

Lecompton Constitution

• created by pro-slavery politicians so that kansas wouldn't become a free state

• protected those that already owned slaves

• stated that no one could reject it; they could only accept it with or without slavery

• many abolitionists boycotted voting, so it was allowed slavery

James Buchanan

• democrat who became president

• approved lecompton constitution (although it wasn't passed) which divided his democratic followers

• republican who became president

stephen douglas

• illinois senator

• strongly opposed lecompton constitution and campaigned against it

• strongly supported lecompton constitution and campaigned for it

• missouri senator

know-nothing party

• aka american party

• formed by protestants against the immigrants coming in

• formed by white southerners who felt they had no say in the government; as a result they were often called know-nothings