American Pageant Chapter 15 Outline
Chapter 19 vocabulary
1. Harriet Beecher Stowe - was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play 2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin - anti-slavery book which alarmed previously unconcerned Northerners and the rest of the world about slavery. 3. Hinton helper - book entitled 'Impending Crisis of the South' that stirred trouble. Attempted to prove that indirectly the non-slaveholding whites were the ones who suffered the most from slavery; the book was banned in the South but countless copies were distributed as campaign material for republicans 4. New england emigrant aid company - 1854 was created to pay anti-slavery …show more content…
American (“know nothing”) party – against immigrants 17. Dred Scott – a slave that wanted his freedom and sued his owner 18. Chief justice roger b Taney – He was Chief Justice for the Dred Scott case. A decision was made on March 6, 1857. Roger Taney ruled against Dred Scott. Scott was suing for freedom because of his long residence in free territory. He was denied freedom because he was property and his owner could take him into any territory and legally hold him as a slave. This court ruling was major cause in starting the Civil War. 19. Dred Scott decision – his freedom was denied 20. Crash of 1857 – The California gold rush increased inflation; speculation in land and railroads "ripped economic fabric"; hit the North harder than South because the South had cotton as a staple source of income; the North wanted free land from the government; drove Southerners closer to a showdown; caused an increase in tariffs; gave Republicans an issue for the election of 1860. 21. Homestead act – gave an applicant freehold title to up to 160 acres 22. Tariff of 1857 – a major tax reduction in the United States, creating a mid-century lowpoint for tariffs. 23. Abraham Lincoln – Senator and soon to be
1. Harriet Beecher Stowe - was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play 2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin - anti-slavery book which alarmed previously unconcerned Northerners and the rest of the world about slavery. 3. Hinton helper - book entitled 'Impending Crisis of the South' that stirred trouble. Attempted to prove that indirectly the non-slaveholding whites were the ones who suffered the most from slavery; the book was banned in the South but countless copies were distributed as campaign material for republicans 4. New england emigrant aid company - 1854 was created to pay anti-slavery …show more content…
American (“know nothing”) party – against immigrants 17. Dred Scott – a slave that wanted his freedom and sued his owner 18. Chief justice roger b Taney – He was Chief Justice for the Dred Scott case. A decision was made on March 6, 1857. Roger Taney ruled against Dred Scott. Scott was suing for freedom because of his long residence in free territory. He was denied freedom because he was property and his owner could take him into any territory and legally hold him as a slave. This court ruling was major cause in starting the Civil War. 19. Dred Scott decision – his freedom was denied 20. Crash of 1857 – The California gold rush increased inflation; speculation in land and railroads "ripped economic fabric"; hit the North harder than South because the South had cotton as a staple source of income; the North wanted free land from the government; drove Southerners closer to a showdown; caused an increase in tariffs; gave Republicans an issue for the election of 1860. 21. Homestead act – gave an applicant freehold title to up to 160 acres 22. Tariff of 1857 – a major tax reduction in the United States, creating a mid-century lowpoint for tariffs. 23. Abraham Lincoln – Senator and soon to be