APUSH Chapter 18-21 Study Guide

Arrange these events in chronological order: A. Dred Scott decision, B.Lincoln-Douglas Debates, C. Kansas-Nebraska Act, D. Harpers Ferry Raid

C, A, B, D

the american military leader whose strategic military and diplomatic mission opened japan up to the US and in 1853-1854 was

Matthew C. Perry

the MOST significant result of the election of 1856 was that it foreshadowed

an ominous sectional clash over slavery in the election of 1860

in order to maintain the two great political parties as vital bonds of national unity, party leaders in the late 1840s avoided

avoided public discussion of slavery

The primary objective of manifest Destiny expansionists in the 1850s was acquiring

cuba

In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the US Supreme Court issued a broad judicial decision ruling that Congress could not

deprive people of their property without due proccess of the law (Fifth Amendment)

Abraham Lincoln won the 160 Republican party presidential nomination in part because he made fewer

enemies than front-runner William Seward

the event that threatened to destroy the longstanding balance of free and slave states in the United States Senate was the discovery of

gold on the American River near Sutter's Mill

the Free Soilers condemned slavery because

it destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise up from wage-earning dependence to the esteemed status of self-employment

the political career of Abraham Lincoln could best be described as largely a ____ until ____

largely a failure; meteoric rise after 1854, the lighting of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory be decided by

popular sovereignty

the Wilmot Proviso, if adopted, would have

prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War

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

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

in 1855, proslavery southerners regarded kansas as slave territory worth contesting against

salve territory

During the 1850s, slaves probably gained their freedom most frequently by

self-purchase

the reoublicans lost in the 1856 election in part because the southern threats that

the election of a "Black Republican" would be a declaration of war on them, forcing them to secede

undoubtedly, the most durable political offspring of the kansas-nebraska act was the emergence of

the new republican party

in the election of 1860, the Constitutional Union Party was formed as a ____ party seeking to prevent ____

"middle-of-the-road-group"; disunion/secession

Harriet Beecher Stowe was described by President Abraham Lincoln as the woman who

"wrote the book that made this great war"

the issues that concerned southerners in 1849-1850 were

-California's impertinent stroke for freedom (admission as a free state might set up a precedent for Utah and New Mexico) -ever-tipping political balance -North's nagging agitation for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia -loss of runaway slaves (Underground Railroads)

some southerners felt cuba would be an enticing prospect for annexation for all of the following reasons

-NOT: was not controlled by any European power and would be easily acquired -

in 1848, the Free Soil Party platform advocated

-Wilmot Proviso -against slavery in the territories -free government homesteads for settlers -to end slavery in the District of Columbia -federal aid for internal improvements

the two major parties in the 1848 campaign kept the focus on

-dodging troublesome issues and extolling the homespun virtues of their candidate -personalities

the Lecompton Constitution was written so that Kansas would continue to

-have black bondage -protect slave owners already in Kansas

Senator John C. Calhoun's plan to protect the South and slavery and maintain the Union involved

-leave slavery alone -return runaway slaves -give the South its rights as a minority -restore the political balance -electing two presidents, one from the North, and one from the South

the US victory in the Mexican war resulted in

-renewed controversy in extending slavery into the territories -possible split in the Whig and Democratic parties over slavery -secession of Mexico of an enormous amount of land to the US -rush of settlers to calofornia

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

-slavery would stay down if the people voted it down -action by territorial legislation could keep slavery out of the territories

in "Bleeding Kansas" in the mid-1850s, ____ was/were identified with the proslavery element, and ___ was/were associated with the antislavery free-soilers

-the Lecompton Constitution (proslavery); the New England Immigrant Aid Society (antislavery) -Preston S. Brooks (for); Charles Sumner (against)

when the people of Britain and France read Uncle Tom's Cabin, their governments realized that

-the triumph of the North would spell the ed of the slave system -their intervention on behalf of the South would not be popular

By 1850, the South was losing perhaps ____ runaway slaves a year out of its total of some 4 million slaves

1,000

on july 3, 1844, the first formal diplomatic agreement between the US and China was the

Treaty of Wanghia