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1042180570Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin portrayed blacks asmilitant resisters to slavery0
1042180571Uncle Tom's Cabin may be described asa powerful political force1
1042180572As a result of reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, many northerners would have nothing to do with the enforcement ofthe Fugitive Slave Law2
1042180573When the people of Britain and France read Uncle Tom's Cabin, their government realized that intervention in the Civil War on behalf of the South wouldnot be popular3
1042180574Hinton R. Helpers's book The Impending Crisis of the South argued that those who suffered most from slave labor werenon-slaveholding southern whites4
1042180575In 1855, proslavery southerners regarded Kansas asslave territory5
1042180576In "Bleeding Kansas" in the Mid-1850s, the Lecompton Constitution was identified with the __________ _______ and the New England Immigrand Society was associated with the ___________ __________proslavery element, antislavery free-soilers6
1042180577In 1856, the breaking point over slavery in Kansas came with an attack on Lawrence bya gang of proslavery raiders7
1042180578President James Buchanan's decision on Kansas's Lecompton Constitutionhopelessly divided the Democratic Party8
1042180579The Lecompton Constitution proposed that the state of Kansasprotect slave owners already in Kansas9
1042180580The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated theimpracticality of popular sovereignty in the territories10
1042180581The clash between Preston S. Brooks and Charles Sumner revealed passions over slavery were becomingdangerously inflamed in both North and South11
1042180582James Buchanan won the Democratic nomination for presidency in 1856 because he was not associated with theKansas-Nebraska Act12
1042180583The central plank of the Know Nothing party in the 1856 election wasNativism13
1042180584Nativists in the 1850s were known for theirAnti-Catholic and Anti-Foreign attitudes14
1042180585The Republicans lost the 1856 election in part because southern threats that Republican victory would bea declaration of war15
1042180586As late as 1856, many northerners were still willing to vote Democratic instead of Republican becausemany did no want to lose their profitable business connections with the South16
1042180587In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the United States Supreme Court expected to lay to rest the issue ofslavery in the territories17
1042180588The decision rendered in the Dred Scott case was applauded byproslavery southerners18
1042180589For a majority of northerners, the most outrageous part of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Dred Scott case was thatCongress had never had the power to prohibit slavery in any territory19
1042180590As a result of the panic of 1856, the South believe that"Cotton was King"20
1042180591The panic of 1857 resulted inclamor for a higher tariff21
1042180592The panic of 1857 hit hardest amonggrain growers of the Northwest22
1042180593The political career of Abraham Lincoln could be best described asslow to get off the ground23
1042180594As a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Douglas defeated Lincoln for theSenate24
1042180595Stephen A. Douglas argued in his Freeport Doctrine during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that slavery wouldstay down if people voted it down25
1042180596In his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown intended to foment aslave rebellion26
1042180597After John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, the South concluded that the North was dominated by"Brown-Loving" Republicans27
1042180598Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 Republican Party presidential nomination in part because he had made fewer enemies than front-runnerWilliam Seward28
1042180599The presidential candidate of the new Constitutional Union Party in 1860 wasJohn Bell29
1042180600In the election of 1860, the Constitutional Union Party was formed as a middle-of-the-road party fearing forthe break up of the union30
1042180601When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, people in South Caroline rejoiced becauseit gave them an excuse to secede31
1042180602The government of the Confederate States of America was first organized inMontgomery, Alabama32
1042180603"Lame-Duck" President James Buchanan believe that the Constitution did not authorize him to for the Southern states tostay in the Union33
1042180604President James Buchanan declined to use force to keep the South in the Union for the following reasons:a. Northern public opinion would not support it b. The army was needed to control Indians in the West c. A slim chance of reconciliation remained d. He was surrounded by pro-southern advisers34
1042180605Abraham Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise because he had been elected on a platform thatopposed the extension of slavery35
1042180606Secessionists supported leaving the Union because:a. They were dismayed by the success of the Republican Party b. The political balance seemed to be tipping against them c. They were tired of abolitionist attacks d. They believed that the North would not oppose their departure36
1042180607The immense debt owed to northern creditors by the south was repudiated bythe South37

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