APUSH Chapter 19
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin proved to be the most influential publication in arousing the northern and European publics against the evils of slavery. | True |
| Prosouthern Kansas pioneers brought numerous slaves with them in order to guarantee that Kansas would not become a free state. | False-Prosouthern Kansas pioneers voted "early and often" in order to guarantee that Kansas would not become a free state. |
| The violence in Kansas was provoked by both radical abolitionists and militant proslavery forces. | True |
| By opposing the proslavery Lecompton Constitution in Kansas, Senator Stephen A. Douglas was able to unite the Democratic party. | False-By opposing the proslavery Lecompton Constitution in Kansas, Senator Stephen A. Douglas was able to divide the Democratic party. |
| Both South Carolina and Massachusetts defiantly reelected the principal figures in the Brooks-Sumner beating incident. | True |
| Although the Republican candidate lost to Buchanan, the election of 1856 demonstrated the growing power of the new anti-slavery party. | True |
| The Dred Scott decision upheld the doctrine of popular sovereignty that the people of each territory should determine whether or not to permit slavery. | False-The Dred Scott decision said that it was illegal to outlaw slavery. |
| Republicans considered the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision invalid and vowed to defy it. | True |
| In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln's criticisms forced Douglas to back away from his support for popular sovereignty. | False-In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln's criticisms forced Douglas to reinforce his support for popular sovereignty. |
| John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry failed to set off a slave uprising but succeeded in inflaming passions in both North and South. | True |
| Northern Democrats walked out of the Democratic party in 1860 when southerners nominated Stephen A. Douglas for president. | False-Northern Democrats nominated Douglas for president and Southerners nominated Breckinridge. |
| The election of 1860 was really two campaigns, Lincoln versus Douglas in the North and Bell versus Breckenridge in the South. | True |
| The overwhelming support for Lincoln in the North gave him a majority of the total popular vote despite winning almost no votes in the South. | True |
| Seven states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America during the "lameduck" period between Lincoln's election and his inauguration. | True |
| Lincoln made a strong effort to get the South to accept the Crittenden Compromise in order to avoid a civil war. | False-Lincoln made a strong effort to deny the Crittenden Compromise because it went against his platform. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin | a. greatly strengthened northern anti-slavery feeling. |
| Hinton R. Helper's The Impending crisis of the South contended that | c. slavery deeply harmed the poor whites of the South. |
| The conflict over slavery in Kansas | d. was greatly escalated by abolitionist-funded settlers and pro-slavery "border ruffians" from Missouri. |
| As presented to Congress, the Lecompton Constitution provided for | d. the admission of Kansas as a slave state. |
| The fanatical abolitionist John Brown made his first entry into violent antislavery politics by | a. killing five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas. |
| The Sumner-Brooks affair revealed | b. the violent disagreements about slavery were being felt in the halls of Congress. |
| The election of 1856 was most noteworthy for | c. the dramatic rise of the Republican party. |
| In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court | c. ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories because slaves were private property. |
| The panic of 1857 encouraged the South to believe that | a. its economy was fundamentally stronger than that of the North. |
| A key issue in the Lincoln-Douglas debates was | b. whether the people of a territory could prohibit slavery in light of the Dred Scott decision. |
| Southerners were particularly enraged by the John Brown affair because | b. they believed Brown's violent abolitionist sentiments were shared by the whole North. |
| In the campaign of 1860, the Democratic Party | c. split in two, with each faction nominating its own presidential candidate. |
| During the campaign of 1860, Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party | a. opposed the expansion of slavery but made no statements threatening to abolish slavery in the South. |
| Within two months after the election of Lincoln, | b. seven southern states had seceded and formed the Confederate States of America. |
| Lincoln rejected the proposed Crittenden Compromise because | b. it permitted the further extension of slavery south of the 36º 30' line. |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | A powerful, personal novel that altered the course of American politics. |
| The Impending Crisis of the South | A book by a southern writer that argued that slavery especially oppressed poor whites. |
| Beecher's Bibles | Rifles paid for by New England abolitionists and brought to Kansas by anti-slavery pioneers. |
| Bleeding Kansas | Term that describes the prairie territory where a small-scale civil war erupted in 1856. |
| Lecomton Constitution | Trickery proslavery document deigned to bring Kansas into the Union but was blocked by Stephen A. Douglas. |
| Know Nothing Party | Anti-immigrant party headed by former President Fillmore that competed with the Republicans and Democrats in the election of 1856. |
| Dred Scott decision | Controversial Supreme Court ruling that blacks had no civil or human rights and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories. |
| Panic of 1857 | Sharp economic decline that increased the northern demands for a high tariff and convinced southerners that the North was economically vulnerable. |
| Lincoln Douglass Debate | Thoughtful political discussion during an Illinois Senate campaign that sharply defined national issues concerning slavery. |
| Constitutional Union Party | Newly formed middle-of-the-road party of elderly politicians that sought compromise in 1860, but carried only three border states. |
| South Carolina | First state to secede from the Union in December, 1860. |
| Confederate States of America | A new nation that proclaimed it independence in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1861. |
| Crittenden Compromise | A last-ditch plan to save the Union by providing guarantees for slavery in the territories. |
| Election of 1860 | Four-way race for the presidency that resulted in the election of sectional minority president. |
| Lame Duck | Period between Lincoln's election and his inauguration during which the ineffectual President Buchanan remained in office. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | E. "The little woman who wrote the book that made this great war" (the Civil War) |
| Hinton R. Helper | G. Southern-born author whose book attacking slavery's effects on whites aroused northern opinion |
| New England Emigrant Aid Company | O. Abolitionist group that sent settlers and "Beecher's Bibles" to oppose slavery in Kansas |
| John Brown | F. Fanatical and bloody-minded abolitionist martyr admired in the North and hated in the South |
| James Buchanan | N. Weak Democratic president whose manipulation by proslavery forces divided his own party |
| Charles Sumner | K. Abolitionist senator whose verbal attack on the South provoked a physical assault that severely injured him |
| Preston Brooks | A. Southern Congressman whose bloody attack on a northern senator fueled sectional hatred |
| John C. Fremont | J. Romantic western hero and first republican candidate for president |
| Dred Scott | C. Black slave whose unsuccessful attempt to win his freedom deepened the sectional controversy |
| Harper's Ferry | L. Site of a federal arsenal where a militant abolitionist attempted to stop a slave rebellion |
| Stephen A. Douglas | B. Leading northern Democrat whose presidential hopes fell victim to the conflict over slavery |
| Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas | H. Scene of militant abolitionist John Brown's massacre of proslavery men in 1856 |
| John C. Breckinridge | M. Buchanan's vice president, nominated for president by breakaway southern Democrats in 1860. |
| Montgomery, Alabama | I. Site where the seven seceding states united to declare their independence from the United States |
| Jefferson Davis | D. Former United States senator who in 1861 became the president of what called itself a new nation |
| H. B. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin | I. Persuaded millions of northerners and Europeans that slavery was evil and should be eliminated |
| The exercise of "popular sovereignty" in Kansas | J. Led to a "mini" prairie civil war between proslavery and antislavery groups |
| Buchanan's support for the proslavery Lecompton Constitution | H. Offended Senator Douglas and divided the Democratic party |
| The Dred Scott case | G. Infuriated Republicans and made them determined to defy the Supreme Court |
| The 1858 Illinois senate race | D. Made Lincoln a leading national Republican figure and hurt Douglas' presidential chances |
| John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry | C. Convinced southerners that the North generally supported murder and slave rebellion |
| The splitting of the Democratic party in 1860 | B. Shattered one of the last links between the sections and almost guaranteed Lincoln's victory in 1860 |
| The election of Lincoln as president | A. Moved South Carolina to declare immediate secession from the Union. |
| The "lame-duck" period and Buchanan's indecisiveness | F. Paralyzed the North as the southern secessionist movement gained momentum |
| Lincoln's rejection of the Crittenden Compromise | E. Ended the last hopes of a peaceable sectional settlement and an end to secession |
| In which six northern states did Lincoln carry every single county? | Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island |
| In which four future Confederate states was the opposition to secession strongest? | Virginia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia |
| In which three states did every single county for which returns are available support secession? | Arkansas, North Carolina, and South Carolina |
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