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