Chapter 19

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, uncle Tom’s cabin

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Intended to show the cruelty of slavery

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As a result of the panic of 1857, the south

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Believed that it was economically superior to the north

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In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision that

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Protection of slavery was guaranteed in all of the territories of the west

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The panic of 1857

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Hit hardest among grain growers of the northwest

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In The election of 1860, the constitutional union party was formed

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As a middle-of-the-road party fearing for the break up of the nation

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The panic of 1857 resulted in

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Clamor for a higher tariff

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The situation in Kansas in the mid 1850s indicated the impracticality of ___ in the territories

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Popular sovereignty

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James Buchanan won the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1856 because he

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Could distance himself and the Democrats from the Kansas Nebraska act

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The Lecompton constitution was written so that Kansas

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Would only apply for statehood by permitting slavery

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When Abraham Lincoln 1 to 1860 presidential election, people in South Carolina

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Rejoiced because it gave them an excuse to secede

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Stephen A Douglas argued, in his Freeport Doctrine, during the Lincoln- Douglas debates that

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Slavery would stay down if the people voted it down

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After John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, the south concluded that

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The north was dominated by “Brown-loving” republicans

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Uncle Tom’s cabin maybe described as

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A powerful political force

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In the north, the panic of 1857 created calls for

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Free homesteads and higher protective tariffs

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The presidential candidate of the new constitutional union party in 1860 was

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John Bell

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As a result of reading uncle Tom’s cabin, many northerners

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Would have nothing to do with the enforcement of the fugitive slave law

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As a result of the Lincoln – Douglas debates

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Douglas defeated Lincoln for the Senate

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Abraham Lincoln oppose the Crittenden compromise because

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He had been elected on the platform that opposed the extension of slavery

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The Central plank of the know – nothing party in the 1856 election was

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Nativism

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The decision rendered in the Dred Scott case was applauded by

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Proslavery southerners

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The government of the Confederate states of America was first organized in

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Montgomery, Alabama

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In declaring their independence, the Confederate states relied heavily on the example of the

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Principles of self determination of the declaration of independence

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In his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown intended to

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Call upon the slaves to rise and establish a black Free state

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The real significance of the election of 1856 was that it

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Foreshadowed an ominous sectional clash over slavery in the election of 1860

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Abraham Lincoln when the 1860 Republican Party presidential nomination in part because he

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Had made fewer enemies than front runner Williams Seward

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Pres. James Buchanan’s decision on Kansas’ Lecompton constitution

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Hopelessly divided the Democratic Party

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Nativists in the 1850s were known for their

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Anti-catholic an anti-foreign attitudes

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The Lecompton constitution proposed that the state of Kansas

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Protect slave owners already in Kansas

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In 1855, proslavery southerners regarded Kansas as

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Slave territory

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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

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Non-slaveholding Southern whites

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The clash between Preston S Brooks and Charles Summer revealed

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Passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed and both the north and the south

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In 1856, the breaking point over slavery in Kansas came with

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An attack on Lawrence by a gang of proslavery raiders

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When the people of Britain and France read uncle Tom’s cabin, their governments

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Realize that the intervention in the Civil War on the behalf of the south would not be popular

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In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the United States Supreme Court

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Are you that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the federal territories

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The immense debt owed to northern creditors by the south was

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Repudiated by the south

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Secessionist supported leaving the union for all of the following reasons except

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They believe that Republicans had been infiltrating their political ranks

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Pres. James Buchanan the client to use force to keep the south and the union for all of the following reasons except that

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He believe that the constitution allowed secession

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Lame duck president James Buchanan believed that

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The Constitution did not authorize him to for southern states to stay in the union

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The political career of Abraham Lincoln could best be described as

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Largely a failure until his meteoric rise after 1854

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For a majority of northerners, the most out rages part of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Dred Scott case was that

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Congress had never had the power to prohibit slavery in any territory

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In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the United States Supreme Court

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Argued that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the federal territories

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As late as 1856, many northerners were still willing to vote Democratic is that a Republican because

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Many did not want to lose their profitable business connections with the south

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The Republicans lost the 1856 election in part because of

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Southern threads that a Republican victory would be a declaration of war

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In the presidential election of 1856, the Republicans

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Revealed astonishing strength for a brand-new party

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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

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The Lecompton constitution; the new England immigration aid society