Chapter 19: Drifting Towards Disunion 1854-1861 (One pagers are due Monday 12/19)
Terms to Know:
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- The Impending Crisis of the South
- New England Emigrant Aid Company
- Bleeding Kansas
- Dred Scott v. Stanford
- panic of 1857
- Tariff of 1857
- Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- Freeport question
- Freeport Doctrine
- Harpers Ferry
- Constitutional Union Party
- Confederate States of America
- Crittenden Amendments
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People to Know:
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Charles Sumner
- Preston Brooks
- Dred Scott
- Roger Taney
- Stephen Douglas
- Abraham Lincoln
- John Brown
- John Breckinridge
- John Jordan Crittenden
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Questions:
- How did the political developments of the period work to fragment the Democratic Party and benefit the Republicans?
- Could the Crittenden Compromise or some other proposal have prevented or at least postponed the Civil War? Why was compromise successful in 1820 and 1850, but not in 1860?