chapter 14 h.l.
What did the federal government do to the Plains Indians who lived in what became Nebraska?
It pushed them farther west.
Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) influence northerners' attitudes toward slavery?
It put forth a stirring moral indictment of slavery.
How did the Dred Scott decision increase sectional tension?
It validated the idea in the N. that a slave power conspiracy existed.
Why did the slave states of the Upper South initially reject secession?
They did not have a stake in slavery as the states in the Lower South.
Why did the United States negotiate the Gadsden Purchase in 1853?
To support the dream of a southern route for the transcontinental railroad
Which Senator argued, when it came to ending slavery, there was "a higher law than the Constitution"—the law of God?
William Seward
The American party, or Know-Nothings, appeared in the mid-1850s as
a reaction to large numbers of Roman Catholics coming to the United States.
Southerners felt so much hostility toward the Republican party during the presidential election of 1860 that
ten states refused to allow Lincoln's name to appear on the ballot.
What did the Supreme Court rule in its 1857 Dred Scott decision?
Dred Scott was not a citizen.
What made Abraham Lincoln an attractive candidate for the Republican nomination?
He represented the crucial state of Illinois.
Why did Zachary Taylor anger southerners when he became president in 1849?
He urged Congress to admit CA & New Mexico to the Union as free states.
What happened to John Brown, an abolitionist willing to use violence and conducted a raid on Harper's Ferry?
He was executed.
What happened when the first territorial legislature in Kansas met?
It enacted tough proslavery laws.
What led to the demise of the Know-Nothing party in the mid-1850s?
It endorsed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, alienating northerners.
What was the result of Preston Brooks's caning of Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner in 1856?
It further inflamed sectional passions over the institution of slavery.
In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln
reassured the South that he had no right to interfere with slavery.
The presidential election of 1856 revealed the
strength of the new Republican Party.
What was a requirement of the Fugitive Slave Act, part of the Compromise of 1850?
All citizens were to assist officials in apprehending runaway slaves.
Who becomes the pres. of the Confederate States of America in 1863 w/ its capital city established in Richmond, VA?
Jefferson Davis
What was the result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, starting in 1858, Illinois senatorial race on freedom & slavery?
Lincoln became nationally known.
Northerners who wanted to reserve new lands for white settlers supported the Wilmot Proviso (1846). What did it propose?
Slavery would be prohibited throughout the entire area ceded by Mexico.
How did American politics change in the aftermath of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Whig party disintegrated.
Which issue in the debate of 1849-50 led to the Compromise of 1850 in which CA entered the union as a free state?
The balance of power between the North and the South in Congress
What common thread wove together northern men to form the Republican party in 1854?
The opposition to the extension of slavery into any territory of the U. S.
Early in the struggle to win Kansas, proslavery supporters
invaded Kansas to control the election through fraud and intimidation.
Northern women supported the new Republican party in the 1850s by
marching in Republican parades
In the mid-1850s, Abraham Lincoln's search for a political home was based on his
opposition to extension of slavery & idea that slavery was morally wrong.
Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan proposed the doctrine of popular sovereignty, a measure that would allow
people who settled the territories decided if their state allowed slavery.
