Chapter 19

Question 1

What were the 2 abolitonist books and who created them?

Answer 1

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

- The Impending Crisis of the South by Hinton Helper

Question 2

What’s the difference between Uncle Tom’s Cabin and The Impending Crisis of the South?

Answer 2

UTC showed slavery as a moral issue; TICOTS showed slavery as an economic issue

Question 3

Who did the Impending Crisis of the South target?

Answer 3

Non-slaveholding whites, who supposedly suffered the most

Question 4

What was a famous abolitionist organization that sent northerners into Bleeding Kansas?

Answer 4

New England Emigrant Aid Company

Question 5

Who influenced many northerners to march to Bleeding Kansas? What were the names of the weapons they carried?

Answer 5

• Reverend Henry Ward Beecher

- “Beecher’s Bibles” or rifles

Question 6

What happened in early government creation (1855) in Bleeding Kansas?

Answer 6

Proslaveryites created government at Shawnee Mission, prompting free-soilers to create one in Topeka (illegal)

Question 7

What was the town of Lawrence? What happened to it?

Answer 7

Free-soil town that was burned by antislaveryites

Question 8

Why did John Brown invade Pottawatomie Creek and what occurred as a result?

Answer 8

• Burning of free-soil Lawrence

- Warfare in “Bleeding Kansas”