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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
Intended to show the cruelty of slavery |
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin may be described as |
A powerful political force |
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As a result of reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin, many northerners |
Would have nothing to do with the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law |
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When the people of Britain and France read Uncle Tom’s Cabin, their governments |
Realized that the intervention in the Civil War on behalf of the South would not be popular |
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Hinton R. Helper’s book The Impending Crisis of the South argued that those who suffered most from slave labor were |
Nonslaveholding southern whites |
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In 1855, proslavery southerners regarded Kansas as |
Slave territory |
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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; the New England Immigrant Aid Society |
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In 1856, the breaking point over slavery in Kansas came with |
An attack on Lawrence by a gang of proslavery raiders |
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President James Buchanan’s decision on Kansas’s Lecompton Constitution |
Hopelessly divided the Democratic party |
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The Lecompton Constitution proposed that the state of Kansas |
Protect slave owners already in Kansas |
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The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the impracticality of _________________ in the territories |
Popular sovereignty |
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The clash between Preston S. Brooks and Charles Sumner revealed |
Passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed in both North and South |
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James Buchanan won the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1856 because he |
Was not associated with the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
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Match each candidate in the 1856 election below with the correct party |
A-2 B-3 D-1 |
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The central plank of the Know-Nothing party in the 1856 election was |
Nativism |
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Nativists in the 1850s were known for their |
Anti-Catholic and anti foreign attitudes |
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The Republicans lost the 1856 election in part because of |
Southern threats that a Republican victory would be a declaration of war |
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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 |
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In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the US Supreme Court |
Expected to lay to rest the issue of slavery in the territories |
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The decision rendered in the Dred Scott case was applauded by |
Proslavery southerners |
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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 |
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For a majority of northerners, the most outrageous part of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Dred Scott case was |
that Congress had never had the power to prohibit slavery in any territory |
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As a result of the panic of 1857, the South |
Believed that "cotton was king." |
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The panic of 1857 resulted in |
Clamor for a higher tariff |
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The panic of 1857 |
Hit hardest among grain growers of the Northwest |
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The political career of Abraham Lincoln could best be described as |
Slow to get off the ground |
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As a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, |
Douglas defeated Lincoln for the Senate |
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Stephen A. Douglas argued in his Freeport Doctrine during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that |
Slavery would stay down if the people voted it down |
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In his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown intended to |
Foment a slave rebellion |
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After John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, the South concluded that |
The North was dominated by "Brown-loving" Republicans |
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Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 Republican party presidential nomination in part because he |
Had made fewer enemies than the front-runner William Seward |
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Match each presidential candidate in the 1860 election below with his party’s position on slavery |
Abraham Lincoln – ban slavery from all territories Stephen Douglas – enforce popular sovereignty John Breckenridge – extend slavery into the territories John Bell – preserve the Union by compromise |
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The presidential candidate of the new Constitutional Union party in 1860 was |
John Bell |
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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 |
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When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, people in South Carolina |
Rejoiced because it gave them an excuse to secede |
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The government of the Confederate States of America was first organized in |
Montgomery, Alabama |
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"Lame-duck" President James Buchanan believed that |
The Constitution did not authorize him to force southern states to stay in the Union |
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President James Buchanan declined to use force to keep the South in the Union for all of the following reasons except that |
He believed that the Constitution allowed secession |
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Abraham Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise because |
He had been elected on a platform that opposed the extension of slavery |
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Secessionists supported leaving the Union because |
They were dismayed by the success of the Republican party, they believed that the North would not oppose their departure, the political balance seemed to be tipping against them, they were tired of abolitionist attacks (all of the above) |
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The immense debt owed to northern creditors by the South was |
Repudiated by the South |
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