Chapter 19 American Pageant

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 Helper's picture of the South and slavery.

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

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.

• portrayed blacks as militant resisters to slavery.

Harriet Beecher Stowe was described by President Abraham Lincoln as

• a troublemaker.

• a radical abolitionists.

• the woman who wrote the book that started the Civil War.

• the force behind the Underground Railroad.

In 1855, proslavery southerners regarded Kansas as

• territory governed by the Missouri Compromise.

• slave territory worth contesting against antislavery northerners to determine the territory's ultimate political status.

• geographically unsuitable for slavery.

• a test for slavery in wheat-growing areas.

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

• slavery was inconsistent with the constitution and must be abolished.

• protection of slavery was guaranteed in all the territories of the U.S.

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

• slavery was unconstitutional, but the slave trade was unconstitutional.

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

• the arrival of John Brown.

• the influx of a large number of slaves.

• the passage of the Lecompton Constitution.

• a deadly armed attack and partial burning of the free-soil town of Lawrence by a gang of proslavery raiders.

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

• abolitionism

• free soil

• popular sovereignty

• slavery

The clash and political fallout between Congressman Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina and Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in 1856 revealed that

• the important 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.

• there were stark divisions between the House and the Senate over slavery in the Democratic party.

The central plank(s) of the Know-Nothing party in the 1856 election was/were

• popular sovereignty.

• expansionism.

• proslavery.

• antiforeignism and anti-Catholicism.

The MOST significant result of the election of 1856 was that it

• showed that the Democrats still remained the majority party in the country.

• demonstrated the importance of charismatic leadership in the presidency.

• foreshadowed an ominous sectional clash over slavery in the election of 1860.

• signaled the demise of the Know-Nothing (American) Party.