Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861

1. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin proved to be the most 
influential publication in arousing the northern and European publics 
against the evils of slavery.
A. True		B. False

2. Prosouthern Kansas pioneers brought numerous slaves with them in 
order to guarantee that Kansas would not become a free state.
A. True		B. False

3. The violence in Kansas was provoked by both radical abolitionists 
and militant pro-slavery forces.
A. True		B. False

4. By opposing the proslavery Lecompton Constitution in Kansas, 
Senator Stephan A. Douglas was able to unite the Democratic Party.
A. True		B. False

5. Both South Carolina and Massachusetts defiantly reelected the 
principal figures in the Brooks-Sumner beating incident.
A. True		B. False

6. Although the Republican candidate lost to Buchanan, the election 
of 1856 demonstrated the growing power of the new antislavery party.
A. True		B. False

7. The Dred Scott decision upheld the doctrine of popular sovereignty 
that the people of each territory should determine whether or not to 
permit slavery.
A. True		B. False

8. Republicans considered the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision 
invalid and vowed to defy it.
A. True		B. False

9. In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln’s criticisms forced 
Douglas to back away from his support for popular sovereignty. 
A. True		B. False

10. John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry failed to set off a slave 
uprising but succeeded in inflaming passions in both North and South.
A. True		B. False

11. Northern Democrats walked out of the Democratic party in 1860 
when southerners nominated Stephen A. Douglas for president. 
A. True		B. False

12. The election of 1860 was really two campaigns, Lincoln versus 
Douglas in the North and Bell versus Breckinridge in the South. 
A. True		B. False

13. Lincoln won a solid majority of the popular vote but only a 
minority in the Electoral College. 
A. True		B. False

14. Seven states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America 
during the "lame-duck" period between Lincoln's election and his 
inauguration. 
A. True		B. False

15. Lincoln made a strong effort to get the South to accept the 
Crittenden Compromise in order to avoid a civil war. 
A. True		B. False

16. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin 
A. greatly strengthened northern antislavery feeling.
B. argued that nonslaveholding whites suffered the most from slavery.
C. increased the desire for sectional compromise on the issue of 
slavery.
D. was based on Stowe's long personal experience with slavery in the 
Deep South.

17. Hinton R. Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South contended 
that 
A. slavery violated the essential principles of the U.S. Constitution.
B. slavery was contrary to the religious values held by most 
Americans.
C. slavery did great harm to the poor whites of the South.
D. slavery violated the human rights of African-Americans.

18. The conflict over slavery in Kansas 
A. came about because the first settlers brought substantial numbers 
of slaves to the territory
B. was resolved by the Crittenden Compromise.
C. was temporarily resolved by the Compromise of 1850.
D. was greatly escalated by abolitionist-funded settlers and 
proslavery "border ruffians" from Missouri.

19. As presented to Congress, the Lecompton Constitution provided for 
A. the admission of Kansas as a free state.
B. a statewide referendum on slavery to be held after Kansas's 
admission to the Union.
C. a prohibition against either New England or Missouri involvement 
in Kansas politics.
D. the admission of Kansas as a slave state.

20. The fanatical abolitionist John Brown made his first entry into 
violent antislavery politics by 
A. killing five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
B. organizing a slave rebellion in Missouri. 
C. leading an armed raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, 
Virginia.
D. organizing an armed militia of blacks and whites to conduct 
escaped slaves to Canada.


21. The Sumner-Brooks affair revealed 
 A. that antislavery northerners were as willing to turn to violence 
as proslavery southerners.
 B. that violent disagreements about slavery were being felt in the 
halls of Congress.
 C. that neither northerners nor southerners were yet ready to 
tolerate political violence over slavery.
 D. how loyalty to section was beginning to supersede loyalty to 
political party.

 22. The election of 1856 was most noteworthy for 
 A. the Democrats' surprising loss of the White House.
 B. the support immigrants and Catholics gave to the American Party.
 C. the dramatic rise of the Republican party.
 D. the absence of the slavery issue from the campaign.

23. In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court 
 A. avoided controversy by ruling that the slave Dred Scott had no 
right to sue in federal court.
 B. ruled that the Kansas-Nebraska Act was unconstitutional.
 C. ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories 
because slaves were private property.
 D. ruled that slaves could sue in federal court only if their 
masters permitted them to do so.

 24. The panic of 1857 encouraged the South to believe that 
 A. its economy was fundamentally stronger than that of the North.
 B. it ought to take new steps to develop its own banking and 
manufacturing institutions.
 C. it would be wise to support the Homestead Act.
 D. its economic future was closely tied to that of the North.

 25. A key issue in the Lincoln-Douglas debates was 
 A. whether secession from the Union was legal.
 B. whether the people of a territory could prohibit slavery in light 
of the Dred Scott decision.
 C. whether Illinois should continue to prohibit slavery.
 D. whether Kansas should be admitted to the Union as a slave or a 
free state.

The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 brought Abraham Lincoln to the 
national stage.  He was previously an unknown political figure, but 
two years after the debates, he was elected president of the United 
States.  Lincoln did not win the Senate seat for Illinois, but he won 
a great moral victory, as he carried more of the population than 
Douglas (Members of the Senate were elected by state legislature, not 
by the people).

 26. Southerners were particularly enraged by the John Brown affair 
because 
 A. so many slaves had joined the insurrection.
 B. they believed Brown's violent abolitionist sentiments were shared 
by the whole North.
 C. Brown had expressed his contempt for the southern way of life.
 D. Brown escaped punishment by pleading insanity.

 27. In the campaign of 1860, the Democratic Party 
 A. tried to unite around the compromise "popular sovereignty" views 
of Stephen A. Douglas.
 B. campaigned on a platform of restoring the compromises of 1820 and 
1850.
 C. split in two, with each faction nominating its own presidential 
candidate.
 D. threatened to support secession if the sectionally-based 
Republicans won the election.

 28. Lincoln won the presidency 
 A. with an electoral majority derived only from the North.
 B. with a majority of both the electoral and the popular vote.
 C. primarily because of the divisions in the Democratic party.
 D. with an electoral majority evenly derived from all sections of 
the nation.

 29. Within two months after the election of Lincoln, 
 A. Northerners were mobilizing for a civil war.
 B. seven southern states had seceded and formed the Confederate 
States of America.
 C. all the slaveholding states had held conventions and passed 
secessionist resolutions.
 D. President Buchanan appealed for troops to put down the 
secessionist rebellion.

30. Lincoln rejected the proposed Crittenden Compromise because 
 A. it did not address the issue of the future of slavery.
 B. it permitted the further extension of slavery south of the line 
of 36° 30'.
 C. it represented a further extension of Douglas's popular 
sovereignty idea.
 D. the Supreme Court would probably have ruled it unconstitutional.