Chp. 18-19 APUSH American Pageant
Who was the presidential candidate of the new Constitutional Union party in 1860?
John Bell
In "Bleeding Kansas" in the mid-1850s, ________________ was/were identified with the proslavery element, and ________________ was/were associated with the antislavery free-soilers.
Lecomposition Constitution, New England Immigrant aid
Who opened Japan to the United States?
Mathew Perry
By what name was a scheme to acquire Cuba from Spain in the 1850's known?
Osterd manifesto
Why did James Buchanan win the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1856?
because he was not associated with Kansas-Nebraska Act
Why did the public like popular sovereignty?
because it fit the democratic tradition of self- determination
As late as 1856, why were many northerners still willing to vote Democratic instead of Republican?
because many did not want to lose their profitable business connection with the south
What was a key cause why the Republicans lost the 1856 election?
because the southern threats that a republican victory would be a declaration of war
What event led the South to believe "cotton was king?"
The Panic of 1857
How did Harriet Tubman gain fame?
by helping slaves escape to canada
When the people of Britain and France read Uncle Tom's Cabin, what did their governments realize?
common citizens would not support intervention on the side of the south and slavery
List 4 provisions of the Fugitive Slave Law.
denied jury trials to runaways, fleeing slaves could not testify on their own behalf, penalty for helping slaves escape was fine and/or imprisonments, higher payments for officials who determine runaway slave versus freeman
Why did the Free Soilers condemn slavery?
destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise to self employment
According to the principle of "popular sovereignty," by what would the question of slavery in the territories be determined?
determined by a vote of the people within a territory
What was the event that brought turmoil to the administration of Zachary Taylor?
discovery of gold in california
What did John Brown intended to do in his raid on Harpers Ferry?
forment a slave rebellion
What was the intention of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?
intend to show cruelty of slaves
What characterized a high proportion of those people going to California during the gold rush?
lawless men
What was the United States Supreme Court hoping to accomplish in ruling on the Dred Scott case?
lay to rest the issue of slavery in the territories
Where would slavery have been prohibited if the Wilmot Proviso was adopted?
mexican war
What was the central plank of the Know-Nothing party in the 1856 election?
nativism
Who did Hinton R. Helper's book 'The Impending Crisis of the South' argue had suffered most from slave labor?
non-slaveholding white southerners
List 4 items that the Free Soil party platform of 1848 advocated.
opposition of slavery in the territories, support from the wilmot proviso, free government homestead for settlers, and federal aid for internal improvement
What was the key focus for the major parties in the 1848 presidential election?
personalities
In the Compromise of 1850, how did Congress say that slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories would be determined?
popular sovereignty
Who applauded the decision rendered in the Dred Scott case?
proslavery southerners
In order to maintain the two great political parties as vital bonds of national unity, what did party leaders avoid?
public discussion
What was the desire of the Young Guard from the North?
purging and purifying the union
What was the political and economical condition of the South by 1850?
relatively well
List 4 results of the United States' victory in the Mexican War.
renewed controversy over expansion and slavery in the territories, the possible split within both the whig and democratic parties over slavery, the mexican cession of land, and a rush of settlers following the discover of gold in california
What did the clash between Preston S. Brooks and Charles Sumner reveal?
revealed the fact that passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed in both North & South
During the 1850s, how did slaves most likely gain their freedom?
self purchase
In 1855, what kind of territory did proslavery southerners regarded Kansas as?
slave territory
Who would the state of Kansas protect under the Lecompton Constitution?
slavery in Kansas
What did the Free Soilers argue regarding slavery and labor?
slavery would cost more wage labor to wither away
What did Stephen A. Douglas argue in his Freeport Doctrine during the Lincoln-Douglas?
that action by territorial legislatures could keep slavery out of the territories
What did John C. Calhoun's plan to protect the South and slavery involve?
the election of two presidents, one from the north and one from the south
The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the impracticality of _______________ in the territories.
the impracticality of popular sovereignty in the territory
By what did Stephen A. Douglas propose that the question of slavery in the Kansas- Nebraska Territory be decided?
the missouri compromise
For what were the nativists in the 1850s known?
their anticatholic and antiforeign attitudes
In the 1848 presidential election, what two parties remained silent on the issue of slavery?
whigs & democrats
During the debate of 1850, _________________ argued that there was a "higher law" than the Constitution that compelled him to demand the exclusion of slavery from the territories.
William H Seward
What was the result of Daniel Webster's famed Seventh of March speech in 1850?
a shift toward compromise towards in the north
For his position in his Seventh of March speech, Daniel Webster was viciously condemned by what group?
abolitionists
Arrange these events in chronological order: Kansas-Nebraska Act, Harpers Ferry raid, Dred Scott decision, Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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List 4 reasons why President James Buchanan declined to use force to keep the South in the Union.
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List 4 reasons why secessionists supported leaving the Union.
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List each candidate in the 1856 election with his political party.
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List each presidential candidate in the 1860 election with his party's position on the slavery question.
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What was the result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Douglas defeated Lincoln for the senate
