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APush Chapter 19
Chapter 19
Question | Answer |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin | was strongly rooted in religiously based antislavery sentiments. |
Hinton R. Helper's The Impending Crisis ofthe South contended that | slavery did great harm to the poor whites of the South. |
Southerners were especially enraged by abolitionists' funding of antislavery settlers in Kansas because | most ordinary westward-moving pioneers would be sympathetic to slavery. |
As submitted to Congress, the Lecompton Constitution was designed to | insure that the future of slavery would be determined according to Douglas's principle of popular sovereignty. |
The fanatical abolitionist John Brown made his first enfry into violent antislavery politics by | killing five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas. |
Congressman Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner nearly to death on the Senate floor because | Sumner had used abusive language to describe the South and a South Carolina senator. |
The election of 1856 was most noteworthy for | the dramatic rise of the Republican party. |
In the DredScott decision, the Supreme Court | ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in any of the territories because slaves were private property of which owners could not be deprived. |
The financial and economic collapse of 1857 increased northern anger at the South's refusal to support | banking regulation and development of a sound paper currency. |
The crucial Freeport Question that Lincoln demanded that Douglas answer during their debates was whether | the people of a territory could prohibit slavery in light of the DredScott decision. |
Southerners were particularly enraged by the John Brown affair because | northerners' celebration of Brown as a martyr seemed to indicate their support for slave insurrection. |
In the campaign of 1860, the Democratic party | split in two, with each faction nominating its own presidential candidate. |
During the campaign of 1860, Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party | opposed the expansion of slavery but did not threaten to attack slavery in the South. |
Within two months after the election of Lincoln | seven southern states had seceded and formed the Confederate States of America. |
Lincoln rejected the proposed Crittenden Compromise primarily because | it permitted the further extension of slavery north of the line of 360 30' |