Ch. 19 Quiz

Abraham Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise because

He had been elected on a platform that opposed the extension of slavery.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin

Intended to show the cruelty of slavery

The Lecompton Constitution proposed that the state of Kansas

Protect slave owners already in Kanas

In the ruling on the Dred Scott case, the United States Supreme Court

Argued that Congreve could not prohibit slavery in the federal territories

As a result of the panic of 1857, the South

Believed that it was economically superior to the North

James Buchanan won the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1856 because he

Could distance himself and the Democrats from the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Secessionists supported leaving the Union for all the following reasons except

They believed that Republicans had been infiltrating their political ranks

Hinton R. Helper's book, The Impending Crisis of the South, argued that those who suffered most from slave labor were

nonslaveholding southern whites

The presidential candidate of the new Constitutional Union party in 1860 was

John Bell

Stephen A. Douglas argued, in his Freeport doctrine, during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that

Slavery would stay down if the people voted it down