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Charles Sumner

Definition

An abolitionist senator from Massachusetts. He made a speech in which he blamed the south for the violence in Kansas. Congressmen Preston Brooks, from South Carolina entered the Senate floor a few days later and beat Sumner with a cane. People from the south showed their appreciation of Brooks by sending them canes.

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Dredd Scott (Decision)

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A slave that sued his owner hoping to win his freedom because he was brought into a free territory, but his case went to the Supreme court where it was basically ruled that slaves could not find freedom anywhere in America.

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In 1854 a new ____...

Definition

...Political party was formed; the Republican party. The members of the Republican Party were mostly from north. This party was founded to stop the spread of slavery and many of its first members were abolitionists. Ran in its first presidential election in just 2 years.