AP US History Touart- American Pageant (Chapter 19) Drifting Toward Disunion
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe | Two-part What novel published in 1852 depicted the wickedness of slavery and the slave auction and who was its author? |
| The Impending Crisis of the South, Hinton Helper | Two-part What was the book published in 1857 that was condemnatory of slavery from the perspective of non-slaveholding whites in the South and who was its author? |
| New England Emigrant Aid Company, Beecher's Bibles | Two-part What was the name of the organization dedicated to assisting antislavery forces in Kansas be victorious and what was the nickname for the guns carried by these antislavery people? |
| John Brown, Pottawottamie Creek | Two-part Who was the leader of a group of radical abolitionists who killed five men in Kansas and at what site did this take place? |
| Lecompton Constitution | What was the name for the tricky document designed by proslavery forces to be Kansas' form of government and to the existence of slavery there? |
| Preston Brooks | Who was the South Carolina Congressman who brutally beat a northern Senator from Massachusetts after he gave a critical speech about the South and a member of the Southern Senate delegation? |
| John C. Fremont | Who was the first candidate for president from the Republican Party? |
| James Buchanan | Who was the victor in the election of 1856? |
| Bleeding Kansas | What term describes the scene of a territory engulfed in a civil conflict over the issue of slavery from 1856-1861? |
| Missouri Compromise (of 1820) | What was ruled unconstitutional in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case? |
| Panic of 1857 | What event prompted Southern cotton growers to become overconfident that the South was superior to the North? |
| higher tariffs, cheap homesteads | What were the two primary economic issues Republicans campaigned on in 1860? |
| Freeport Doctrine | What was the concept established by Senator Douglas in his reply to Abraham Lincoln's question on the fate of popular sovereignty after the Dred Scott decision? |
| Harper's Ferry | At what site did John Brown attempt to incite an armed rebellion in Virginia? |
| Lincoln- Republican, Douglas- Northern Democrat, Breckinridge- Southern Democrat, Bell- Constitutional Union | Name the four candidates for president in the election of 1860 and the party they represented. |
| secession | What is the term for a state withdrawing voluntarily from the Federal Union? |
| Montgomery, AL | Where was the first capital of the Confederacy? |
| Jefferson Davis | Who was elected the president of the Confederate States of America? |
| John Crittenden | Who was the Kentucky Senator who proposed a last ditch compromise to guarantee slavery in the southern territories? |
| lame duck | What term describes the interlude following an election before the inauguration of a new president? |
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