Chapter 19

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

"The little women who wrote the book that made this great war" (Civil War)

John Brown

Fanatical and bloody minded abolitionists martyr admired in the North ad hated in the South

Jefferson Davis

Former US senator who, in 1861, became the president of what called itself a new nation

True

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle tom's Cabin proved to be the most influential publication in arousing the northern and European publics against the evils of slavery

False

Hinton Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South stirred slaveholders' wrath by predicting that the slaves would eventually rise up in violent revolt

False

In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln's criticism forced Douglas to back away from his support for popular sovereignty as the solution to the slavery question in the West

Stephen A. Douglas

Leading northern Democrat whose presidential hopes fell victim to the conflict over slavery

False

Lincoln made a strong effort to get the South to accept the Crittenden Compromise in order to avoid the civil war

False

Northern Democrats walked out of the Democratic party convention in 1860 when the southerners nominated Vice President John Breckenridge for president

Henry Ward Beecher

Preacher-abolitionist who funded weapons for antislavery pioneers in Kansas

False

Prosouthern Kansas pioneers brought numerous slaves with them in order to guarantee that Kansas would not become a free state

John C. Fremont

Romantic western hero and the first republican candidate for president

False

Senator Stephen Douglas's support for the proslavery Lecompton Constitution demonstrated that the Democratic party was completely beholden to its southern wing

True

Seven states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America during the "lame-duck" period between Lincoln's election and his inauguration

Preston Brooks

Southern congressman whose bloody attack on a northern senator fueled sectional hatred

Hinton R. Helper

Southern-born author whose book attacking slavery's effects on whites aroused northern opinion

False

The Dred Scott decision upheld the doctrine of popular sovereignty that the people of each territory should determine whether or not to permit slavery

True

The South was enraged by many northerners' celebration of John Brown as a martyr

True

The election of 1860 was really two campaigns, Lincoln versus Douglas in the North and Bell versus Breckenridge in the South

False

The overwhelming support for Lincoln in the North gave him a majority of the total popular vote despite winning almost no votes in the South

True

The violence in Kansas was provoked by both racial abolitionists and militant proslavery forces who sought to control the territory

James Buchanan

Weak Democratic president whose manipulation by proslavery forces divided his own party

Dred Scott

Black slave whose unsuccessful attempt to win his freedom deepened the sectional controversy

John C. Breckenridge

Buchanan's vice president, nominated for president by breakaway southern Democrats in 1860

Charles Sumner

Abolitionists senator whose verbal attack on the South provoked a physical assault that severely injured him

True

After Congressman Preston Brooks nearly bent Senator Charles sumner to death on the Senate floor, South Carolina reflected Brooks and Massachusetts reelected Sumner

True

Although Republican John C. Fremont lost the presidency to Democrat James Buchanan, the election of 1856 demonstrated the growing power of the new antislavery party


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