AP US HISTORY CHAPTER 19 Flashcards
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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 |