Chapter 19 Flashcards
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, uncle Tom’s cabin
Intended to show the cruelty of slavery
As a result of the panic of 1857, the south
Believed that it was economically superior to the north
In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision that
Protection of slavery was guaranteed in all of the territories of the west
The panic of 1857
Hit hardest among grain growers of the northwest
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 nation
The panic of 1857 resulted in
Clamor for a higher tariff
The situation in Kansas in the mid 1850s indicated the impracticality of ___ in the territories
Popular sovereignty
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
Would only apply for statehood by permitting slavery
When Abraham Lincoln 1 to 1860 presidential election, people in South Carolina
Rejoiced because it gave them an excuse to secede
Stephen A Douglas argued, in his Freeport Doctrine, during the Lincoln- Douglas debates that
Slavery would stay down if the people voted it down
After John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, the south concluded that
The north was dominated by “Brown-loving” republicans
Uncle Tom’s cabin maybe described as
A powerful political force
In the north, the panic of 1857 created calls for
Free homesteads and higher protective tariffs
The presidential candidate of the new constitutional union party in 1860 was
John Bell
As a result of reading uncle Tom’s cabin, many northerners
Would have nothing to do with the enforcement of the fugitive slave law
As a result of the Lincoln – Douglas debates
Douglas defeated Lincoln for the Senate
Abraham Lincoln oppose the Crittenden compromise because
He had been elected on the platform that opposed the extension of slavery
The Central plank of the know – nothing party in the 1856 election was
Nativism
The decision rendered in the Dred Scott case was applauded by
Proslavery southerners
The government of the Confederate states of America was first organized in
Montgomery, Alabama
In declaring their independence, the Confederate states relied heavily on the example of the
Principles of self determination of the declaration of independence
In his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown intended to
Call upon the slaves to rise and establish a black Free state
The real significance of the election of 1856 was that it
Foreshadowed an ominous sectional clash over slavery in the election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln when the 1860 Republican Party presidential nomination in part because he
Had made fewer enemies than front runner Williams Seward
Pres. James Buchanan’s decision on Kansas’ Lecompton constitution
Hopelessly divided the Democratic Party
Nativists in the 1850s were known for their
Anti-catholic an anti-foreign attitudes
The Lecompton constitution proposed that the state of Kansas
Protect slave owners already in Kansas
In 1855, proslavery southerners regarded Kansas as
Slave territory
Hinton R. Helper’s Book, the impending crisis of the south, argued that those who suffered most from slave labor were
Non-slaveholding Southern whites
The clash between Preston S Brooks and Charles Summer revealed
Passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed and both the north and the south
In 1856, the breaking point over slavery in Kansas came with
An attack on Lawrence by a gang of proslavery raiders
When the people of Britain and France read uncle Tom’s cabin, their governments
Realize that the intervention in the Civil War on the behalf of the south would not be popular
In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the United States Supreme Court
Are you that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the federal territories
The immense debt owed to northern creditors by the south was
Repudiated by the south
Secessionist supported leaving the union for all of the following reasons except
They believe that Republicans had been infiltrating their political ranks
Pres. James Buchanan the client to use force to keep the south and the union for all of the following reasons except that
He believe that the constitution allowed secession
Lame duck president James Buchanan believed that
The Constitution did not authorize him to for southern states to stay in the union
The political career of Abraham Lincoln could best be described as
Largely a failure until his meteoric rise after 1854
For a majority of northerners, the most out rages 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
In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the United States Supreme Court
Argued that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the federal territories
As late as 1856, many northerners were still willing to vote Democratic is that a Republican because
Many did not want to lose their profitable business connections with the south
The Republicans lost the 1856 election in part because of
Southern threads that a Republican victory would be a declaration of war
In the presidential election of 1856, the Republicans
Revealed astonishing strength for a brand-new party
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 immigration aid society
