Chapter 19

Question 1

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

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protection of slavery was guaranteed in all the territories of the West

Question 2

Harriet Beacher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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intended to show the cruelty of slavery

Question 3

Uncle Tom’s Cabin may be described as

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a powerful political force

Question 4

As 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

Question 5

Harriet Beecher Stowe was described by President Abraham Lincoln as

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the woman who wrote the book that started the Civil War

Question 6

The roots of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s antislavery sentiments lay in the

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evangelical religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening

Question 7

When the people of Britain and France read Uncle Tom’s Cabin, their governments

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realized that intervention in the Civil War on behalf of the South would not be popular

Question 8

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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nonslaveholding southern whites

Question 9

In 1855, proslavery southerners regarded Kansas as

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slave territory

Question 10

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 Immigrant Aid Society

Question 11

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

Question 12

President James Buchanan’s decision on Kansas’s Lecompton Constitution

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hopelessly divided the Democratic party

Question 13

The Lecompton Constitution was written so that Kansas

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would continue to permit slavery in some form

Question 14

The Lecompton Constitution proposed that the state of Kansas

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protect slave owners already in Kansas

Question 15

The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the impracticality of ______ in the territories.

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popular sovereignty

Question 16

The clash between Preston S. Brooks and Charles Sumner revealed

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passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed in both North and South.

Question 17

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.

Question 18

John C. Fremont

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Republican nominee for president

Question 19

Millard Fillmore

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Know-Nothing (American Party) nominee for president

Question 20

Stephen A. Douglas

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Too tainted by Kansas-Nebraska Act to obtain Democratic nomination

Question 21

James Buchanan

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Democratic nominee for president

Question 22

The central plank of the Know-Nothing party in the 1856 election was

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nativism.

Question 23

Nativists in the 1850s were known for their

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anti-Catholic and antiforeign attitudes.

Question 24

In the presidential election of 1856, the Republicans

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revealed astonishing strength for a brand-new party.

Question 25

The Republicans lost the 1856 election in part because of

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southern threats that a Republican victory would be a declaration of war.

Question 26

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.

Question 27

As late as 1856, many northerners were still willing to vote Democratic instead of Republican because

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many did not want to lose their profitable business connections with the South.

Question 28

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.

Question 29

In the Dred Scott case, the US Supreme Court made all of the following determinations

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1) It ruled that Dred Scott was a slave, not a citizen, and therefore could not sue in federal court.
2) It said that because slaves were private property, they could be taken into free or slave terriotories.
3) It declared that the Constitution protected slave owners’ rights to property no matter where they resided.
4) It stated that Scott should be returned to slavery.

Question 30

The decision rendered in the Dred Scott case was applauded by

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proslavery southerners.

Question 31

Arrange these events in chronological order: Dred Scott decision, Lincoln-Douglas debates, Kansas-Nebraska Act, and Harpers Ferry raid.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott decision
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Harpers Ferry raid

Question 32

For a majority of northerners, the most outrageous 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.

Question 33

As a result of the panic of 1857, the South

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believed that it was economically superior to the North.

Question 34

In the North, the panic of 1857 created calls for

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free homesteads and higher protective tariffs.

Question 35

The panic of 1857

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hit hardest among grain growers of the Northwest.

Question 36

The political career of Abraham Lincoln could best be described as

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largely a failure until his meteoric rise after 1854.

Question 37

As a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates

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Douglas defeated Lincoln for the Senate.

Question 38

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 no matter what the Supreme Court said.

Question 39

Lincoln stated that he believed that the black race was

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inferior but entitled to the same natural rights as white people.

Question 40

In his raid on Harper’s Ferry, John Brown intended to

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call upon the salves to rise and establish a black free state.

Question 41

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

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the North was dominated by “Brown-loving” Republicans.

Question 42

John Brown’s execution produced all of the following results

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1) Harriet Tubman praised Brown’s support of freedom for slaves.
2) Abolitionists and free-soilers were outraged.
3) Ralph Waldo Emerson and other northerners hailed him as a martyr, much like Jesus.
4) Southerners wondered how they could stay in the Union.

Question 43

Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 Republican party presidential nomination in part because he

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had made fewer enemies than front-runner William Seward.

Question 44

Abraham Lincoln

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Banned slavery from the territories

Question 45

Stephen Douglas

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Enforced popular sovereignty

Question 46

John Breckenridge

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Extended slavery into the territories

Question 47

John Bell

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Preserved the Union by compromise

Question 48

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 union.

Question 49

When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, people in South Carolina

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rejoiced because it gave them and excuse to secede.

Question 50

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

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Montgomery, Alabama.

Question 51

“Lame-duck” President James Buchanan believed that

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southern states could not secede under the Constitution.

Question 52

President James Buchanan declined to use force to keep the South in the Union for all of the following reasons

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1) Northern public opinion would not support it.
2) The army was needed to control Indians in the West.
3) A slim chance of reconciliation remained.
4) He was surrounded by pro-southern advisers.

Question 53

Abraham Lincoln opposed the Crittendon Compromise because

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he had been elected on a platform that opposed the extension of slavery.

Question 54

Secessionists supported leaving the Union for all of the following reasons:

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1) They were dismayed by the success of the Republican party.
2) They believed that the North would not oppose their departure.
3) They political balance seemed to be tipping against them.
4) They were tired of abolitionist attacks.

Question 55

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.

Question 56

The immense debt owed to northern creditors by the South was

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repudiated by the South.

Question 57

All of the following are true statements about southerners in the secession movement:

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1) They regarded their region as a subnation with a distinct culture form the North.
2) Secessionists were inspired by worldwide impulses of nationalism.
3) They resisted being lorded over by the North.
4) They saw parallels between their movement and the 1776 break with England.

Question 58

Kansas Territory’s Lecompton Constitution was supported by

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1) President James Buchanan

2) Proslavery settlers in Kansas.

Question 59

In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled that

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1) Dred Scott was not a citizen of the US
2) Dred Scott could not legally sue in a federal court
3) The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
4) Congress had no power to ban slavery from a territory.

Question 60

Before his nomination in 1860, Abraham Lincoln had been

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1) A state legislator in Illinois.
2) A US congressman from Illinois.
3) A failed candidate for the US Senate.

Question 61

The 1860 Republican party platform favored

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1) Protective tariffs.
2) Construction of a transcontinental railroad.
3) Free homesteads.
4) Non-extension of slavery.

Question 62

In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln

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1) Won a majority in the Electoral College.

2) Won less than a majority of the popular vote.

Question 63

The proposed Crittendon Compromise, if adopted, would have

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1) Prohibited slavery north of 36 degrees 30’.
2) Guaranteed federal protection of slavery in territories south of 36 degrees 30’.
3) Permitted the expansion of slavery into new territories south of 36 degrees 30’.