APUSH Ch. 19-20

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.

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

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.

• too close to free states for slavery to be practical.

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 United States.  

• 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.

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

• the arrival of John Brown.

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

• the influx of a large number of slaves.

• the establishment of evangelical abolitionist churches.

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

• abolitionism

• free soil

• popular sovereignty

• slavery

As late as 1856, many northerners were still willing to vote Democratic instead of Republican because

• the presidential Democratic candidates were the only major or minor party candidates truly committed to preserving the Union at almost any cost.

• of innate liberalism.

• many Democrats involved in interstate commerce did not want to lose their profitable business connections with the South.

• the Democrats consistently presented superior presidential and congressional candidates to the other parties.

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

• denied Scott's appeal but held that slaves could not be taken into free territories.

• essentially upheld the doctrine of popular sovereignty.

• tried to settle the immediate issue on technical legal grounds.

• issued a broad judicial decision ruling that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the federal territories.

. As a result of the panic of 1857, the South

• became more economically dependent on the North.

• became hostile to Wall Street and the stock market.

• overconfidently believed that it was now economically superior to the North.

• stopped considering the viability of an  independent southern nation.

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

• had been a strong supporter of William Seward.

• had never taken a stand on the issue of slavery in the territories.

• had made fewer enemies than front-runner William Seward.

• had more political experience than his opponents.