Charles Sumner

Senator from Massachusetts. Abolitionist. Gave speech, " The Crime Against Kansas" condemned proslavery men. Insulted South Carolina and one of the best-liked members of senate, Andrew Butler. Sumner was attacked by Brooks. Sumner's head and nervous system injuries were serious and was forced to leave his seat for three and a half years.

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Dred Scott

Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision invalidated the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Dred Scott a black slave, had lived with his master for 5 years in Illinois and Wisconsin Territory. Backed by interested abolitionists he sued for freedom on the basis of his long term residence on free soil. Majority of Court decrred that because a slave was private property, he or she could by taken into ANY territory and legally held there in slavery. Republicans were angry about ruling.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin is a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. She was dismayed by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, she was determined to awaken the North to the wickedness of slaveryby telling of its inhumanities such as the splitting of families. Her popular book relied on imagery and pathos. No other novel in American history can be compared with it as a political force. When she met Lincoln, he remarked, " so you are the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war." in regaurdes to the civil war. Book disliked in South, but loved by North. Also popular in Britain and France. 1852.
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Chapter 19 Words

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M.B. you have John Brown, "Bleeding Kansas"
D.B. you have Roger Taney, Know-Nothing Party
A.S. you have Charles Sumner, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Dred Scott
J.C. you have Lincoln Douglas Debates, John C. Calhoun
J.A. you have Panic of 1857, Freeport Doctrine
S.D. you have John C. Breckenridge, Harpers Ferry
A.B. you have Hinton Helper, Pottawatomie Creek
E.C. you have Crittenden Compromise, Lecompton Constitution