Question

Identify and state the historical significance of the following

1. Harriet Beecher Stowe 2. Hinton R. Helper 3. John Brown 4. James Buchanan 5. Charles Sumner 6. John C. Fremont 7. Dred Scott 8. Roger Taney 9. John C. Breckenridge 10. John Bell 11. Abraham Lincoln 12. Jefferson Davis 13. John Crittenden 14. self-determination 15. southern nationalism 16. Uncle Tom's Cabin 17. The Impending Crisis of the South 18. New England Immigrant Aid Society 19. Pottawatomie Creek massacre 20. Lecompton Constitution 21. "Bleeding Kansas" 22. American or Know-Nothing party 23. Dred Scott decision 24. panic of 1857 25. Lincoln-Douglas debates 26. Freeport Doctrine 27. Harpers Ferry raid 28. Constitutional Union party 29. "Beecher's Bibles" 30. Crittenden Compromise 31. Bleeding Sumner

Answer 1

Wow this is a lot. I’m going to try to help as much as I can.

1) Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. She wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. This novel was very important because it depicted the horrors of slavery to the readers.

2) I don’t know

3) John brown was viewed as crazy. But he was an abolitionist and was determined to end slavery. He believed only armed insurrection would end slavery. He is famous for his raid on Harpers Ferry. He was hung for treason.

4) All I know was that James Buchanan was our 15th president

5) Charles sumner was a Massachusetts senator. He was anti slavery. And he was a leader of the radical republicans during the civil war.

6) I don’t know

7) I don’t know

8) I don’t know

9) I dont know

10) I don’t know

11) Abraham Lincoln was our 16th president. He led the United States through the civil war but died right before it ended. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

12) Jefferson Davis was the president of the confederate states and he represented Mississippi before he switched sides to the confederacy.