1042180570 | Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin portrayed blacks as | militant resisters to slavery | 0 | |
1042180571 | Uncle Tom's Cabin may be described as | a powerful political force | 1 | |
1042180572 | As a result of reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, many northerners would have nothing to do with the enforcement of | the Fugitive Slave Law | 2 | |
1042180573 | When 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 would | not be popular | 3 | |
1042180574 | Hinton R. Helpers's book The Impending Crisis of the South argued that those who suffered most from slave labor were | non-slaveholding southern whites | 4 | |
1042180575 | In 1855, proslavery southerners regarded Kansas as | slave territory | 5 | |
1042180576 | In "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-soilers | 6 | |
1042180577 | In 1856, the breaking point over slavery in Kansas came with an attack on Lawrence by | a gang of proslavery raiders | 7 | |
1042180578 | President James Buchanan's decision on Kansas's Lecompton Constitution | hopelessly divided the Democratic Party | 8 | |
1042180579 | The Lecompton Constitution proposed that the state of Kansas | protect slave owners already in Kansas | 9 | |
1042180580 | The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the | impracticality of popular sovereignty in the territories | 10 | |
1042180581 | The clash between Preston S. Brooks and Charles Sumner revealed passions over slavery were becoming | dangerously inflamed in both North and South | 11 | |
1042180582 | James Buchanan won the Democratic nomination for presidency in 1856 because he was not associated with the | Kansas-Nebraska Act | 12 | |
1042180583 | The central plank of the Know Nothing party in the 1856 election was | Nativism | 13 | |
1042180584 | Nativists in the 1850s were known for their | Anti-Catholic and Anti-Foreign attitudes | 14 | |
1042180585 | The Republicans lost the 1856 election in part because southern threats that Republican victory would be | a declaration of war | 15 | |
1042180586 | As late as 1856, many northerners were still willing to vote Democratic instead of Republican because | many did no want to lose their profitable business connections with the South | 16 | |
1042180587 | In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the United States Supreme Court expected to lay to rest the issue of | slavery in the territories | 17 | |
1042180588 | The decision rendered in the Dred Scott case was applauded by | proslavery southerners | 18 | |
1042180589 | For a majority of northerners, the most outrageous part of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Dred Scott case was that | Congress had never had the power to prohibit slavery in any territory | 19 | |
1042180590 | As a result of the panic of 1856, the South believe that | "Cotton was King" | 20 | |
1042180591 | The panic of 1857 resulted in | clamor for a higher tariff | 21 | |
1042180592 | The panic of 1857 hit hardest among | grain growers of the Northwest | 22 | |
1042180593 | The political career of Abraham Lincoln could be best described as | slow to get off the ground | 23 | |
1042180594 | As a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Douglas defeated Lincoln for the | Senate | 24 | |
1042180595 | Stephen A. Douglas argued in his Freeport Doctrine during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that slavery would | stay down if people voted it down | 25 | |
1042180596 | In his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown intended to foment a | slave rebellion | 26 | |
1042180597 | After John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, the South concluded that the North was dominated by | "Brown-Loving" Republicans | 27 | |
1042180598 | Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 Republican Party presidential nomination in part because he had made fewer enemies than front-runner | William Seward | 28 | |
1042180599 | The presidential candidate of the new Constitutional Union Party in 1860 was | John Bell | 29 | |
1042180600 | In the election of 1860, the Constitutional Union Party was formed as a middle-of-the-road party fearing for | the break up of the union | 30 | |
1042180601 | When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, people in South Caroline rejoiced because | it gave them an excuse to secede | 31 | |
1042180602 | The government of the Confederate States of America was first organized in | Montgomery, Alabama | 32 | |
1042180603 | "Lame-Duck" President James Buchanan believe that the Constitution did not authorize him to for the Southern states to | stay in the Union | 33 | |
1042180604 | President 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 advisers | 34 | |
1042180605 | Abraham Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise because he had been elected on a platform that | opposed the extension of slavery | 35 | |
1042180606 | Secessionists 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 departure | 36 | |
1042180607 | The immense debt owed to northern creditors by the south was repudiated by | the South | 37 |
APUSH Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861 Flashcards
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