chapter 19

South Carolina congressman Preston Brooks

Beat Senator Charles Sumner with a cane.

what did the writer Ralph Waldo Emerson conclude about John Brown' raid?

Brown's execution would make him a martyr for the abolitionist cause

which of the following was convincing evidence that the Buchanan administration was attempting to impose its will on the people of Kansas

Buchanan's actions in relation to the Lecompton constitution

as a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates

Douglas defeated Lincoln for the Senate

who won the 1856 presidential election?

James Buchanan

which of the following candidates ran as Democrats in the 1860 election?

John Breckenridge and Stephen Douglas

Which had territory had two competing governments in the 1850s?

Kansas

senator John J. Crittenden's attempts at compromise failed because

Lincoln refused to compromise on the extension of slavery into the territories

At its 1860 convention, the Democratic party...

Split into northern and southern wings, each nominating a different presidential candidate

As a result of the 1858 Illinois senatorial election,

Stephen Douglas lost crucial political support in the southern states

what did the know-nothing party argue?

The U.S. should be rid of immigrant and Catholic political influence.

Uncle Tom's Cabin may be described as

a powerful political force

in 1856, the breaking point over slavery in Kansas came with

an attack on Lawrence by a gang of proslavery raiders

Nativists in the 1850s were known for their

anti-Catholic and antiforeign attitudes

in ruling on the Dred Scott case, the united states supreme court

argued that congress could not prohibit slavery in the federal territories

in the election of 1860, the constitutional union party was formed

as a middle-of-the-road party fearing for the break up of the union

As a result of the panic of 1857, the South

believed that it was economically superior to the North

In Uncle tom's cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe

brought the issue of slavery home to many who had never before given it much thought

in his raid on Harpery ferry, John Brown intended to

call upon the slaves to rise and establish a black free state

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

could distance himself and the democrats from the Kansas-Nebraska act

the Lecompton constitution was written so that Kansas

could only apply for statehood by permitting slavery

the proposal for popular sovereignty called for deciding the issue of slavery in the territories through a

decision by the residents in each territory

the roots of Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery sentiments lay in the

evangelical religious revivals of the second great awakening

The southern demand that slavery be allowed to expand into the territories seems to have been motivated by the?

fear that free territories could be used as bases for spreading abolitionism into the south

the american party of the mid-1850s (the know-nothings) drew its primary support from those who feared

foreigners

the real significance of the election of 1856 was that it

foreshadowed an ominous sectional clash over slavery in the election of 1860.

In the North, the panic of 1857 created calls for

free homesteads and higher protective tariffs

In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe took on the pro-slavery position by contending that

good intentions of some owners cannot make up for an evil institution

Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 Republican party presidential nomination in part because he

had made fewer enemies than front-runner William Seward

Abraham Lincoln opposed the crittenden compromise because

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

why did Abraham Lincoln win the 1860 presidential election?

he took advantage of the split in the democratic party and won a plurality of the vote

The panic of 1857

hit hardest among grain growers of the northwest

President James Buchanan's decision on Kansas's Lecompton Constitution

hopelessly divided the democratic party

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

intended to show the cruelty of slavery

what was the significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin?

it pushed many waverers to an aggressive antislavery stance

in 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president with

less than a majority or popular votes and a majority of electoral votes

As late as 1856, many northerners were still willing to vote Democratic instead of Republican because

many did not want to lose their profitable business connections with the south

the central plank of the know-nothing party in the 1856 election was

nativism

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 clash between Preston S. Brooks and Charles Sumner revealed

passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed in both North and South

in declaring their independence, the confederate statesrelied heavily on the example of the

principles of self-determination of the Declaration of Independence

The decision rendered in the Dred Scott case was applauded by

proslavery southerners

the lecompton constitution

protected the property rights of slaveholders already living in Kansas and provided for a referendum on whether to admit more slaves

in 1857, the supreme court ruled in the dred scott decision that

protection of slavery was guaranteed in all the territories of the west

When the people of Britain and France read Uncle Tom's Cabin, their governments

realized that intervention in the civil war on behalf of the south would not be popular

When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, people in South Carolina

rejoiced because it gave them an excuse to secede.

in 1855, proslavery southerners regarded Kansas as

slave territory

which of the following constitutional arguments was designed to protect the institution of slavery?

slaveholders may take their slaves into the territories, because the fifth amendment to the constitution guarantees that no person may be denied his property without due process of law

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

slavery would stay down if the people voted it down

the first southern state to secede from the Union was

south Carolina

the republican lost the 1856 election in part because of

southern threats that a republican victory would be a declaration of war

stephen douglas angered southern democrats by

taking a public stand against the Lecompton constitution.

Secessionists supported leaving the union for all of the following reasons except

the believed that republicans had been infiltrating their political ranks

"Lame-Duck" president James Buchanan believed that

the constitution did not authorize him to force southern states to stay in the union

After John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, the South concluded that

the north was dominated by "brown-loving" republicans

which statement best describes the republican party position in the election of 1860?

there should be no further extension of slavery into the territories

which of the following is true of Charles Sumner and Preston brooks?

they were symbolic of just how emotional the political issue f slavery had become by 1856

in Dred Scott v. Sandford, the supreme court ruled that

ALL OF THESE