AP US HISTORY CHAPTER 19 Flashcards

8361855689	Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin	intended to show the cruelty of slavery	0
8361855690	Uncle Tom's Cabin may be described as	a powerful political force	1
8361855691	As a result of reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, many northerners	swore that they would have nothing to do with the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law	2
8361855692	When the people of Britain and France read Uncle Tom's Cabin, their governments	realized that intervention in the Civil War on behalf of the South would not be popular	3
8361855693	Hinton R. Helper's book The Impending Crisis of the South argued that those who suffered most from slave labor were	non-slaveholding southern whites	4
8361855694	In 1855, proslavery southerners regarded Kansas as	slave territory	5
8361855695	In "Bleeding Kansas" in the mid-1850s, ______________ was/were identified with the proslavery element, and _________________was/were associated with the antislavery free-soilers.	the Lecompton Constitution; the New England Immigrant Aid Society	6
8361855696	In 1856, the breaking point over slavery in Kansas came with	an attack on Lawrence by a gang of proslavery raiders	7
8361855697	President James Buchanan's decision on Kansas's Lecompton Constitution	hopelessly divided the Democratic party	8
8361855698	The Lecompton Constitution proposed that the state of Kansas	have black bondage regardless of whether the document was approved or not	9
8361855699	The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the impracticality of ______________ in the territories.	popular sovereignty	10
8361855700	The clash between Preston S. Brooks and Charles Sumner revealed	the fact that passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed in both North and South	11
8361855701	James Buchanan won the Democratic nomination for presidency in 1856 because he	was not associated with the Kansas-Nebraska Act	12
8361855702	The central plank of the Know-Nothing party in the 1856 election was	nativism	13
8361855703	Nativists in the 1850s were known for their	anti-Catholic and anti-foreign attitudes	14
8361855704	The Republicans lost the 1856 election in part because of	southern threats that a Republican victory would be a declaration of war	15
8361855705	As late as 1856, many northerners were still willing to vote Democratic instead of Republican because	many did not want to lose their profitable business connections with the South	16
8361855706	In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the U.S. Supreme Court	expected to lay to rest the issue of slavery in the territories	17
8361855707	The decision rendered in the Dred Scott case was applauded by	proslavery southerners	18
8361855708	Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) Dred Scott decision, (B) Lincoln-Douglas debates, (C) Kansas-Nebraska Act, (D) Harpers Ferry raid.	Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott decision, Lincoln-Douglas debates, Harpers Ferry raid	19
8361855709	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	20
8361855710	As a result of the panic of 1857, the South	believed that "cotton was king"	21
8361855711	The panic of 1857 resulted in	clamor for a higher tariff	22
8361855712	The panic of 1857	hit hardest among grain growers in the Northwest	23
8361855713	The political career of Abraham Lincoln could best be described as	slow to get off the ground	24
8361855714	As a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates,	Douglas defeated Lincoln for the Senate	25
8361855715	Stephen A. Douglas argued in his Freeport Doctrine during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that	action by territorial legislatures could keep slavery out of the territories	26
8361855716	In his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown intended to	foment a slave rebellion	27
8361855717	After John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, the South concluded that	the North was dominated by the "Brown-loving" Republicans	28
8361855718	Abraham Lincoln was the 1860 Republican party presidential nomination in part because he	had made fewer enemies than front-runner William Seward	29
8361855719	The presidential candidate of the new Constitutional Union party in 1860 was	John Bell	30
8361855720	When Abraham Lincoln was the 1860 presidential election, people in South Carolina	rejoiced because it gave them an excuse to secede	31
8361855721	The government of the Confederate States of America was first organized in	Montgomery, Alabama	32
8361855722	"Lame-duck" President James Buchanan believed that	the Constitution did not authorize him to force southern states to stay in the Union	33
8361855723	President James Buchanan declined to use force to keep the South in the Union for all of the following reasons	-northern public opinion would not support it -the army was needed to control Indians in the West -a slim chance of reconciliation remained -he was surrounded by pro-southern advisers	34
8361855724	Abraham Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise because	the Compromise could allow slavery to expand into Latin America	35
8361855725	Secessionists supported leaving the Union because	-they were dismayed by the success of the Republican party -they believed that the North would not oppose their departure -the political balance seemed to be tipping against them -they were tired of abolitionist attacks	36
8361855726	The immense debt owed to northern creditors by the South was	repudiated by the South	37