APUSH Ch. 19

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Term that described the prairie territory where a small-scale civil war erupted in 1856

"Bleeding Kansas"

Period between Lincoln's election and his inauguration, during which the ineffectual president Buchanan remained in office

"lame-duck" period

Anti-immigrant party headed by former President Fillmore that competed with Republicans and Democrats in the election of 1856

Know-Nothing Party

Tricky proslavery document designed to bring Kansas into the Union but blocked by Stephen A. Douglas

Lecompton Constitution

Thoughtful political discussions during an Illinois senate campaign that sharply defined national issues concerning slavery

Lincoln-Douglas debates

Sharp economic decline that increased northern demands for a high tariff and convinced southerners that the North was economically vulnerable

Panic of 1857

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

Preston Brooks

First state to secede from the Union, in December 1860

South Carolina

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

Stephen A. Douglas

A book by a southern writer that argued slavery especially oppressed poor whites

The Impending Crisis of the South

A powerful, personal novel that altered the course of American politics

Uncle Tom's Cabin

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court

avoided controversy by ruling that Dred Scott had no right to sue in federal court

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

greatly strengthened northern anti-slavery feeling

Lincoln rejected the proposed Crittenden Compromise because

it permitted the further extension of slavery south of the 36* 30' line

The panic of 1857 encouraged the South to believe that

its economy was fundamentally stronger that that of the North

The fanatical abolitionist John Brown made his first entry into violent antislavery politics by

killing five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas

During the campaign of 1860, Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party

opposed the expansion of slavery but made no statements threatening to abolish slavery in the South

Within two months after the election of Lincoln

seven southern states had seceded and formed the Confederate States of America

Hinton R. Helper's The Impending crisis of the South contended that

slavery deeply harmed the poor whites of the South

In the campaign of 1860, the Democratic Party

split in two, with each faction nominating its own presidential candidate

The election of 1856 was most noteworthy for

the absence of the slavery issue from the campaign

As presented to Congress, the Lecompton Constitution provided for

the admission of Kansas as a slave state

The Sumner-Brooks affair revealed

the violent disagreements about slavery were being felt in the halls of Congress

Southerners were particularly enraged by the John Brown affair because

they believed Brown's violent abolitionist sentiments were shared by the whole North

The conflict over slavery in Kansas

was greatly escalated by abolitionist-funded settlers and pro-slavery "border ruffians" from Missouri

A key issue in the Lincoln-Douglas debate was

whether the people of a territory could prohibit slavery in light of the Dred Scott decision

Rifles paid for by New England abolitionists and brought to Kansas by anti-slavery pioneers

Beecher's Bible

A new nation that proclaimed its independence in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1861

Confederate states of America

Newly formed middle-of-the-road party of elderly politicians that sought compromise in 1860, but carried only three Border States

Constitutional Union Party

A last ditch plan to save the Union by providing guarantees for slavery in the territories

Crittenden Compromise

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

Dred Scott

Controversial Supreme Court ruling that blacks had no civil and human rights and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories

Dred Scott case

Four-way race for the presidency that resulted in the election of a sectional minority president

Election of 1860


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