TMP ch. 1 People and Places

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Abraham Lincoln

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16th President of the United States who saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865).

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William Seward

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A senator from New York who said slavery would end whether the South liked it or not.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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(1811-1896) American author and daughter of Lyman Beecher, she was an abolitionist and author of the famous antislavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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Charles Sumner

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Radical Republican against the slave power who insults Andrew Butler and subsequently gets caned by Preston Brooks.

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Andrew Butler

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Was the Senator insulted by Charles Sumner.

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Preston Brooks

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Responsible for beating radical republican Charles Sumner with his cane.

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Eli Whitney

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United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825).

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Jefferson Davis

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Mississippi senator who said the balance of power between North and South would be destroyed; President of the Confederate States of America.

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Henry Clay

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Responsible for the Missouri Compromise and the Fugitive Slave Act.

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Lawrence, Kansas

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1855 - Where the pro-slavery /anti-slavery war in Kansas began ("Bleeding Kansas or Kansas Border War).