Ch.14 - The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860

The person who led a group of so-called "border ruffians" to Kansas to vote for a pro-slavery government there was

David Atchison

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

all of these choices

The final act that destroyed the Whigs as a national political party was the

passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Most immigrants before 1830 were

Most immigrants in the 1850s joined the

Democratic Party

Most northerners left the Know-Nothings and became Republicans because of

the slavery issue.

The subject of Charles Sumner's speech that led to his beating on the floor of Congress was

"Bleeding Kansas."

The winner of the 1856 presidential election was

James Buchanan

The Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court involved a slave who

was suing for his freedom because his master had taken him into free territory

One feature of industry pioneered by the United States was

One of the problems of the southern economy on the eve of the Civil War was

a lack of diversification

____ asserted that southern slaves enjoyed a higher standard of living than northern laborers

George Fitzhugh

At the core of free-labor ideology was the belief that

social mobility awaited those industrious laborers who worked hard and efficiently

The great enemy of a free-labor society was

slavery

Who of the following would have argued that "freedom is not possible without slavery"?

John C. Calhoun

The central issue in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 was

slavery

The result of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was

outrage and fear throughout the South

The violence in "Bleeding Kansas" involved clashes between

proslavery and antislavery groups

Members of the Know-Nothing Party were all of the following except

middle-aged and elderly professional men

In the Kansas territorial election of 1855

approximately five thousand Missourians illegally voted

The southern economy was "colonial" in that

it depended upon exportation of agricultural goods and importation of manufactured products

The Panic of 1857

increased hostility between northerners and southerners who disagreed over the tariff issue

Advocates of the free labor ideology viewed labor strikes as

positive events that helped free workers improve their working conditions

In The Impending Crisis of the South, Hinton Rowan Helper

said that slavery caused economic retardation, illiteracy, and poverty in the South

The most important crop in the south was

cotton

In the "Freeport Doctrine,"

Stephen Douglas suggested that the territories could maintain popular sovereignty by refusing to protect slavery there

John Brown was noted for all of the following except

coining the phrase "the irrepressible conflict" to explain the coming of the Civil War

As a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates

Stephen Douglas was re-elected to the U.S. Senate

The most important social distinction in the south was

Members of the Order, which eventually evolved into the Know-Nothings, supported all of the following except

tax support for parochial schools

The value of American exports and imports increased by ____ percent between 1844 and 1856

200

Which of the following was not among the nation's four leading industries measured by value added in manufacturing by 1860?

iron and steel

By 1855, cotton provided more than ____ of total U.S. exports

one-half

The 3 million immigrants that entered the United States in the decade after 1845 represented ____ percent of the total America population in 1845

15

How many Supreme Court Justices voted in favor of Dred Scott?

2

After serving four terms in the Illinois legislature and one term in Congress, Abraham Lincoln was propelled back into politics by the shock of

the Kansas-Nebraska bill

Organization of the Nebraska territory was necessary in order to

build a railroad across the area

With regard to the Kansas issue, President Franklin Pierce

recognized the proslavery legislature

Most former northern members of the American Party became