APUSH chapter 19 Review

In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision that

• slavery was inconsistent with the constitution and must be abolished

• proctection of slavery was guaranteed in all the territories of the West

• slavery would be constitutional only in those areas that were already slave territories

• abolition of slavery would be done only in those areas in which it is already abolished

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel , Uncle Tom's Cabin

• intended to show the cruelty of slavery

• was prompted by passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• comprised the recollections of a long-time personal witness to the evils of slavery

• received little notice at the time it was published but became widely read during the Civil War

As a result of reading Uncle Tom's Cabin many Northerners

• found the book's portrayal of slavery too extreme

• vowed to halt British and French efforts to help the Confederacy

• rejected Hinton Helpers' picture of the South and slavery

• would have nothing to do with the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law

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

• African Americans

• southern planters

• nonslaveholding Southern whites

• western farmers

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

• abolisitionism

• free soil

• popular sovereignty

• slavery

The clash between Preston S Brooks and Charles Sumner revealed

• the seriousness of political division in the North

• the importance of honor to Northerners

• despite divisions over slavery, the House of Representatives would unite to expel a member for bad conduct

• passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed in both North and South

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

• popular sovereignty

• expansionism

• proslavery

• nativism

• abolitionism

Nativists in the 1850s were known for their

• support of Native Americans

• support of slavery

• opposition to old stock Protestants

• anti-Catholic and antiforeign attitudes

The panic of 1857

• was caused by overexportation of Southern cotton

• hit hardest among grain growers of the Northwest

• finally brought Southern congressmen to support free homesteads

• stimulated Northern demands for lower tariff rates

As a result of the Lincoln-Douglass debates

• Lincoln was elected to the Senate

• Douglas defeated Lincoln for the Senate

• Douglas increased his chances of winning the Presidency

• Lincoln's national stature was diminished