APUSH Chapter 19 Test Review

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin

intended to show the cruelty of slavery.

Uncle Tom's Cabin may be described as

a powerful political force.

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.

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.

Hinton R. Helper's book The Impending Crisis of the South argued that those who suffered most from slave labor were

nonslaveholding southern whites

In 1855, proslavery southerners regarded Kansas as

slave territory.

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

In 1856, the breaking point over slavery in Kansas came with

an attack on Lawrence by a gang of proslavery raiders.

President James Buchanan's decision on Kansas's Lecompton Constitution

hopelessly divided the Democratic party.

The Lecompton Constitution proposed that the state of Kansas

have black bondage regardless of whether the document was approved or not.

The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the impracticality of in the territories.

popular sovereignty

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.

James Buchanan won the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1856 because he

was not associated with the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

The central plank of the Know-Nothing party in the 1856 election was

nativism

Nativists in the 1850s were known for their

anti-Catholic and anti-foreign attitudes

The Republicans lost the 1856 election in part because of

southern threats that a Republican victory would be a declaration of war.

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.

In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the United States Supreme Court

expected to lay to rest the issue of slavery in the territories.

The decision rendered in the Dred Scott case was applauded by

proslavery southerners

For most 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.

As a result of the panic of 1857, the South

believed that "cotton was king."

The panic of 1857 resulted in

clamor for a higher tariff

The panic of 1857

hit hardest among grain growers of the Northwest.

The political career of Abraham Lincoln could best be described as

slow to get off the ground.

As a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates,

Douglas defeated Lincoln for the Senate.

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.

In his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown intended to

foment a slave rebellion.

After John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, the South concluded that

the North was dominated by "Brown-loving" Republicans.

Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 Republican party presidential nomination in part because he

had made fewer enemies than front-runner William Seward.

The presidential candidate of the new Constitutional Union party in 1860 was

John Bell

When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, people in South Carolina

none of the above.

The government of the Confederate States of America was first organized in

Montgomery, Alabama.

"Lame-duck" President James Buchanan believed that

the Constitution did not authorize him to force southern states to stay in the Union.

President James Buchanan declined to use force to keep the South in the Union for all of the following reasons except that

he believed that the Constitution allowed secession.

Abraham Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise because

the Compromise could allow slavery to expand into Latin America.

Secessionists supported leaving the Union because

all of the above.

The immense debt owed to northern creditors by the South was

repudiated by the South.