Chapter 19 Review Flashcards
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin and in what year?
Harriet Beecher Stowe; 1852
(Definition) Antislavery tract, written by White southerner Hinton R Helper, arguing that nonslaveholding whites actually suffered the most in a slave economy.
Impending Crisis of The South
(Definition) Organization created to facilitate the migration of free laborers to Kansas in order to prevent the establishment of slavery in the territory.
New England Emigrant Aid Company
(Definition) Proposed Kansas constitution, whose ratification was unfairly rigged so as to guarantee slavery in the territory. Initially ratified by pro-slavery forces, it was later voted down when Congress required that the entire constitution be put up for a vote.
Lecompton Constitution
Who won the 1856 election?
James Buchanan
What court case extended federal protection to slavery by ruling that Congress did not have the power to prohibit slavery in any territory?
Dred Scott V. Stanford
Who was the Chief Justice during the Dred Scott case?
Roger B. Taney
(Definition) Financial crash brought on by gold-fueled inflation, overspeculation, and excess grain production. Raised calls in the North for higher tariffs and for free homesteads on western public lands.
Panic of 1857
(Definition) Lowered duties on imports in response to a high treasury surplus and pressure from southern farmers.
Tariff of 1857
Who did Lincoln run against for an Illinois seat in the US Senate?
Stephen Douglas
(Definition) Declared that since slavery could not exist without laws to protect it, territorial legislatures, not the Supreme Court, would have the final say on the slavery question. First argued by Stephen Douglas in response to Lincoln’s Freeport Question.
Freeport Doctrine
What federal arsenal was seized by abolitionist John Brown in 1859?
Harpers Ferry
What crimes were John Brown convicted of after Harper’s Ferry?
Murder and treason
What party was formed in 1860 by moderate Whigs and Know-nothings in an effort to elect a compromise candidate and avert a sectional crisis?
Constitutional Union Party
Who won the Election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
Who was a close second to Lincoln for the popular vote in the 1860 election?
Stephen Douglas
When did South Carolina leave the Union?
December 1860
How many states in total seceded from the Union?
Eleven
What was the name of the government formed by the states that seceded from the Union?
The Confederate States of America
What was the name of the failed Constitutional Amendments that would have given federal protection for slavery in all territories south of 36’30*, where slavery was supported by popular sovereignty?
Crittenden Amendments
What reasoning did southerners use to justify their case for seceding from the US?
They drew parallels between their situation and that of the Colonists during the Revolutionary War.
