Chapter 14

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Argued that freedom is not possible without slavery

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John Calhoun

Question 1

Propelled into the national spotlight with his “house divided” speech

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Abraham Lincoln

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Led the campaign in the Senate to ensure that slavery would be allowed in Kansas

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David Atchinson

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The only national party that still existed in the election of 1856

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Democratic Party

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Whig Presidential candidate in 1852

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Winfield Scott

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Political party that was born at an anti-Kansas-Nebraska rally in Ripon, Wisconsin in the 1850’s

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Republican Party

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Idea in the south that all whites, no matter what social status, were equal members of the superior race

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Herrenvolk democracy

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Winner of the 1856 election

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James Buchanan

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Abolitionist zealot who went crazy and massacred pro-slavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek

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John Brown

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Led the drive for a federal slave code in all the territories

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Jefferson Davis

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Officially known as the American Party

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The Know Nothing Party

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North Carolina white author who wrote The Impending Crisis of the South

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Hinton Helper

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The end of this war in Europe caused a small economic panic in the northern states in 1857

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Crimean

Question 13

Constitution that promoted Kansas as a slave state

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Lecompton

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Location of the free-soil government of the Kansas territory

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Lawrence

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Illegally voted in the thousands in the Kansas territory

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Border Ruffians

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Supreme Court decision that declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

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Dred Scott

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Idea that the problems in the country were cause by rising immigration

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Nativism

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Was attacked to near death in the Senate after his Kansas speech

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Charles Sumner

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Introduced the idea of popular sovereignty into the debate over Kansas territory

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Stephan Douglas

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Key feature of “Yankee ingenuity” that promoted American industry

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Interchangeable parts

Question 21

Author who developed the idea that slaves were better off than factory workers

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George Fitzhugh

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Proposed by Stephan Douglas,idea that territories could effectively maintain popular sovereignty by refusing to protect slavery there

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Freeport Doctrine

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Destroyed the Whigs as a national party

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Southern Supreme Court justice who declared the Dred Scott case

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Roger Taney

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The first republican presidential candidate

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John C. Fremont

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In the mid-nineteenth century American system of education

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Was stronger in the North than in the South

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Organization of the Nebraska territory was necessary in order to

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Build a railroad across the area

Question 28

Which of the following did not run a presidential candidate in 1856?

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Whig Party

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Which political party endorsed the ideas of “free labor”?

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Republican Party

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One of the problems of the southern economy on the eve of the civil war was

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A lack of diversification

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Defenders of slavery claimed all of the following except

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Elderly slaves were automatically freed when they reached retirement age

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As a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debate

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Stephan Douglas was re-elected to the U.S Senate

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Most immigrants in the 1840-1850s were

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Irish, Catholic, and unskilled laborers

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Most immigrants in the 1859s joined the

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Democratic Party

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_____________ asserted that southern slaves enjoyed a higher standard if living then northern laborers

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George Fitzhugh

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The violence in “Bleeding Kansas” involved clashes between

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Proslavery and antislavery groups

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Most immigrants between 1800-1830s were

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British, Protestant, and skilled workers

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Members if the Order, which eventually turned into the American Party, supported all of the following except?

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Tax support for parochial/private schools

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In The Impending Crisis of the South, Hinton Rowan Helper

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Said that slavery caused economic retardation, illiteracy, and poverty in the South

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Stephan A. Douglas was chair of the Senate Committee on

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Territories

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The southern economy was “colonial” in that

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It depended upon exportation of agricultural goods and importation of manufactured products

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The result of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry was

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Revulsion and fear throughout the South

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John Brown was noted for all of the following except

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An advocate for non-violent, political overthrown of slavery

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After serving four terms in the Illinois legislature and one term in Congress, Lincoln was propelled back into politics by the

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Kansas-Nebraska Bill

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Which of the following was not among the nations four leading industries measured by value added in manufacturing by 1860

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Steel

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The destruction of the Whig Party led to the formation of the

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Republican Party