chapter 19 history

As presented to Congress, the Lecompton Constitution provided for

. the admission of Kansas as a slave state

The movement of southern states to secede from the Union after Lincoln's election was led by

South Carolina

Congressman Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner nearly to death because

Sumner had vehemently attacked the South and proslavery Senator Andrew Butler in a speech on the Senate floor

The reaction of most Northerners to John Brown was to

condemn the raid on Harper's Ferry but mourn Brown as a martyr after his execution

At the Democratic convention of 1860, Senator Stephen Douglas

could not muster the necessary two-thirds vote, so the entire body dissolved.

The border ruffians were

proslavery Missourians who rushed into Kansas to vote illegally and battle antislavery forces there

The Tariff of 1857 did all of the following EXCEPT

addressed the requests of industrialists in the North for higher duties.

The Supreme Court's sweeping ruling in the Dred Scott case was that the

Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional and that Congress could not prohibit citizens from taking their slave property into any territories.

The Democratic Party in 1860

bitterly wrangled over the platform, leading the delegates from most of the cotton states to walk out.

The key provision of the Crittenden Compromise was to guarantee that there would always be an exactly equal number of slave and free states in the Union.

false

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

focused especially on slavery's destructive effect on black families.

Opposition to the Homestead Act of 1860 included all of the following EXCEPT

free-soilers who feared the legislation would tip the political balance against the South

One of the persistent northern demands that was vetoed by proslavery Democratic presidents before the Civil War was a

homestead act that would offer free farms to western settlers.

Lincoln rejected the proposed Crittenden Compromise because

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

All of the following were true of the Constitutional Union party EXCEPT it

rejected the opportunity to elect a compromise candidate

The conflict over slavery in Kansas

revealed the deep flaws in Stephen Douglas's idea that popular sovereignty could resolve the slavery issue.

All of the following were true of the Dred Scott decision EXCEPT

the Missouri Compromise, banning slavery north of 36° 30', was repealed.

Congressman Preston Brooks's beating of Senator Charles Sumner on the Senate floor convinced many northerners that proslavery southerners were brutal and violent.

true

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin reflected the evangelical antislavery attitudes prompted by the Second Great Awakening.

true

John Brown's plan in raiding the Harper's Ferry arsenal was to arm the slaves and lead them in a rebellion to establish a free black state.

true

The secession crisis of the winter of 1860−1861 was deepened by lame duck President James Buchanan's weak and uncertain policies in the face of southern rebellion.

true

Hinton R. Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South

was banned and burned throughout the South.

The panic of 1857

was caused in part by California gold pouring in and inflating the currency.

In the election of 1856, the Democrats and Republicans were both challenged by an anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant party called the

Americans or Know-Nothings.

In the election of 1860, the strongly pro-Southern and proslavery candidate was

Vice President John Breckinridge.