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