APUSH Ch 18 & 19
Popular sovereignty
According to which principle would the question of slavery in territories be determined by the vote of the people in any given territory?
Fugitive Slave Law
Because of Uncle Tom's Cabin, many Northerners swore that they would have nothing to do with the enforcement of which law?
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott decision, Lincoln-Douglas debates, Harpers Ferry raid
Give the chronological order of these events: the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Harper's Ferry, Bleeding Kansas, and the Dred Scott decision
the burning of Lawrence by a gang of pro-slavery raiders
In 1856, what was the breaking point that first sparked the "mini-Civil War" over slavery in Kansas?
They avoided the issue
In order to maintain national unity, how did the two great political parties in the early nineteenth century respond to the issue of slavery?
Missouri Compromise
Stephen Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act required the repeal of which compromise?
Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner
The clash between which two politicians revealed the fact that passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed in both the North and South?
ideals of the Enlightenment
What are the roots of Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery sentiments?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe dramatized the cruelty of slavery?
panic of 1857
What caused the South to believe it was economically superior to the North?
forment a slave rebellion
What did John Brown intend to do at Harpers Ferry?
Constructing a transcontinental railroad
What did most American leaders believe was the only way to maintain control of the Pacific coast?
The discovery of gold in California
What event threatened to destroy the longstanding equality of free and slave states?
Freeport Doctrine
What is the name Douglas's declaration during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that action by territorial legislature could keep slavery out of an area despite the Dred Scott decision?
Fugitive Slave Law
What law included the denial of a jury trial to runaway slaves, a higher payment if officials determined blacks to be runaways, the requirement that Northerners help catch runaway slaves, and the denial of fleeing slaves the right to testify on their own behalf?
Free soil
What party, in 1848, stood against slavery because it believed the West should be preserved as a land of opportunity for free white landowners?
Mexican War
What renewed the controversy of extending slavery into territories, threatened of splits over slavery in the Whig and Democratic parties, resulted in the cession of an enormous amount of land to the US, and caused a rush of settlers to the new US territory (California)?
Daniel Webster's Seventh of March Speech
What speech caused a shift toward pro-Union sentiment and compromise in the North?
California
What state's admission to the union worried Southerners about the future of slavery because it might permanently tip the political balance against them?
It fore-shadowed an ominous sectional clash over slavery in the election of 1860.
What the true significance of the election of 1856?
Popular sovereignty
What was supported by the people because it fit in with the democratic tradition of self-determination?
Douglas defeated Lincoln for Senate.
What was the result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Lecompton Constituion
What was written so that Kansas could only apply for statehood by permitting slavery?
Harriet Tubman
What woman gained great fame by helping slaves escape to Canada?
Wilmont Provisio
What, if it had been passed, would have prohibited slavery in any territory acquired by the Mexican War?
Montgomery, Alabama
Where was the government of the Confederacy first organized? (later moved to Richmond, VA)
James Buchanan
Which "lame duck" president believed the Consitution did not allow him to enforce to the South to remain in the Union?
American Revolution
Which American example did the South rely on to declare independence?
Hinton Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South
Which book argued that non slave- holding southern whites suffered most from slavery?
abolitionists
Which group condemned Daniel Webster for his Seventh of March Speech?
Congress had never had the power to prohibit slavery in any territory.
Which part of the the decision in the Dred Scott case was seen as the most outrageous by Northerners?
Whig
Which party ended after the election of 1852?
Zachary Taylor
Which president helped the cause of the Compromise of 1850 by dying suddenly, making Millard Fillmore (pro-compromise) president?
South
Which section of the United States was prospering both economically and politically by 1850?
pro-slavery Southerners
Who applauded the decision rendered in the Dred Scott case?
Abraham Lincoln
Who had the position of banning slavery from territories in the presidential election of 1860?
Stephen Douglas
Who had the position of enforcing popular sovereignty in the presidential election of 1860?
John Breckenridge
Who had the position of extending slavery into the territories in the presidential election of 1860?
John Bell
Who had the position of persevering the Union with compromise in the presidential election of 1860?
Matthew Perry
Who opened Japan to the US?
John Bell
Who was the Constitutional Union party's presidential candidate in the election of 1860?
James Buchanan
Who was the Democrat candidate for the presidential election of 1856?
Millard Fillmore
Who was the Know-Nothing candidate for the presidential election of 1856?
John C. Fremont
Who was the Republican candidate for the presidential election of 1856?
Stephen Douglas
Who was the man who did not receive the Democrat presidential nomination because of his Kansas-Nebraska Act?
William H. Seward
Who, during the debate over the Compromise of 1850, argue that there was a higher law than the Constitution that compelled him to demand the exclusion of slavery from territories?
It would be easier to build in that area.
Why was the transcontinental railroad built in the South?