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Glossary Term – Event

Crittenden-Johnson Resolution

The Senate passed the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, which stated that the war’s purpose was to defend the Constitution, not to interfere with slavery.

Glossary Term – Person

John J. Crittenden

John J. Crittenden (1787–1863), a US senator from Kentucky, introduced a series of legislative compromises on the issue of slavery after Lincoln’s election to the presidency. The Crittenden Compromise proposed to restore and extend the Missouri Compromise line, ensure protections for slavery in the South and Washington, DC, and provide popular sovereignty to new states entering the Union. Crittenden’s proposals were defeated and failed to prevent the American Civil War. Crittenden was successful in the passage of the 1861 Crittenden-Johnson...