Chapter 19

Question 1

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 1

Authored by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This powerful novel and stage play brought the real evils of slavery to millions of people who had never known the darkness of human bondage.

Question 2

The Impending Crisis of the South

Answer 2

Authored by Hinton R. Helper. This book cast poor landless whites as the people who suffered most under the slave system. He did not like the slave system, or the Africans that it brought to America.

Question 3

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 3

The popular term used to describe all of the violence between the supporters of slavery and those opposed to it.

Question 4

Lecompton Constitution

Answer 4

The Kansas constitution that voters could vote for either with slavery, or without slavery. The catch in the Lecompton constitution was that even if it was voted in without slavery, those slave holders already in the state would be protected.

Question 5

Preston Brooks

Answer 5

The Southern congressmen who beat Senator Charles Sumner with a cane over insults he made towards the slave holding states and some of its representatives.

Question 6

Who won the election of 1856?

Answer 6

James Buchanon

Question 7

Dred Scott Case

Answer 7

The case of a slave who was taken to free territory by his owner and then sued for his freedom. The case resulted in a verdict that stated slaves could be taken anywhere in the United States and held there as property. It effectively legalized slavery everywhere in the United States.

Question 8

Panic of 1857

Answer 8

A financial crash and panic that was caused at least partially by the influx of California gold and the overproduction of farm products. It provided the Republicans an excellent opportunity to win the election of 1860.

Question 9

Lincoln-Douglass Debates

Answer 9

A series of debates that made Lincoln a national figure. They also showed the fundamental difference between Douglass’ Freeport Doctrine, which said slavery would be put down by the people if they wanted it gone, and Lincoln’s belief that slavery would have to be written out of society with laws.

Question 10

Harper’s Ferry

Answer 10

The federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry was attacked by the crazed abolitionist John Brown. Brown was attempting to acquire guns to arm slaves for an uprising. He was later hanged for his actions, making him a martyr to the Abolitionist cause.

Question 11

How did Lincoln win the election of 1860?

Answer 11

He allowed the Democrats to splinter their vote in many directions and held a popular appeal only in the North. 60% of voters in the United States had not voted for him.

Question 12

Which state left the Union only 4 days after Lincoln won the election?

Answer 12

South Carolina

Question 13

Jefferson Davis

Answer 13

The man elected President of the Confederate States of America.

Question 14

The Confederate States of America

Answer 14

The name of the rebellious country created by Southern States who seceded following the election of Abraham Lincoln.

Question 15

What eleven states made up the Confederate States of America?

Answer 15

South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia.

Question 16

Crittenden Amendments

Answer 16

An attempt to pacify the South. It would have re-established the line of 36 30 in the western territories, protecting slavery south of it and outlawing it north of it.