Chapter 14 Review Questions Flashcards
As a work of art and as a politically influential piece of writing, what accounted for the huge success of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
The normal characters in the book appealed to the readers. They were relate able to all and helped the reader to sympathize with the emotion of having a family torn apart and having good Christians persecuted by overbearing slave drivers.
Address the following statement: “The 1850s was a time of attempted compromise when compromise was no longer possible.” Imagine that you are either a Southern Democrat or Northern Whig in the U.S. Congress of 1854. Express your opinion on the proposed Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Both sides felt they were right and neither wanted to compromise on any of their liberties.
How did evangelical religion affect the sectional conflict between North and South? Discuss the ways in which the North and South had become far different cultures in the areas of politics, economics, and social customs.
-The evangelicals in the Religious revival of 1857 sought to remove religion from politics and focus on god and less on the reforms of the time. they had engrained their philosophy in politics for 20 years and Lincoln took advantage of that in the debates. northern evangelicals taught that social reform was to be made in preparation for the second coming of Christ.
What factors caused the creation of the Republican Party? How did the election of 1860 reveal the severe nature of sectionalism? Between the time he was elected president in November and his inauguration in March, how might Abraham Lincoln have resolved the sectional crisis?
- The fall of the Whigs, anti-slavery sentiments.
- The democrats split between secession issues and as a result the republicans had the upper hand in the election. Abraham Lincoln would have tried to incite division in the south. He would have proposed moral dilemmas that would split the opinions of southern residents to the point that votes to succeed would have failed.
What were the four main approaches to slavery expressed in the 1850s? What characterized the response to the Fugitive Slave Act? Could Northerners and Southerners both have been correct in their positions?
- allow slavery, extend Missouri compromise line, abolition, popular sovereignty.
- Southerners thought it was generally worthless, northerners didn’t like it but agreed, free blacks were frightened as it opened the door to reenslavement.
