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25 Cards in this Set
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True or False Americans were deeply interested in politics by 1858 because of a growing national crisis. |
True |
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True or False The American Renaissaince was characterized by a powerful pride in republican principles. |
False |
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True or False Northerners and southerners believed in Manifest Destiny, although each section had a different view of what that destiny meant. |
TRUE |
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True or False The 1850 Fugitive Slave Law made it more difficult for owners to capture and reclaim runaway slaves. |
False |
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True or False "Young America" was an expansionistic movement that focused in particular on obtaining territories in Canada and the Pacific Northwest. |
False
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True or False In many ways "Bleeding Kansas" represented the violent divisions beginning to permeat the United States in the 1850s. |
TRUE |
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True or False The Charles Sumner-Preston Brooks affair was a violent episode that occurred between the two men because of their differences over slavery. |
TRUE
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True or False The Panic of 1857 devastated the cotton market and convinced many southerners that their agricultural economy was inferior to the developing factory system. |
False
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True or False The election of 1860 presented voters with candidates who had distinct differences in their approach to national policies. |
TRUE
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True or False
Most southern states approved secession by putting the issue to a vote by each state's citizens. |
FALSE
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By the senatorial campaign of 1858... |
many Americans believed that the nation's democratic institutions would provide a lasting political solution to the issues associated with slavery. |
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As the United States entered the 1850s... |
northerners and southerners tended to view each other from vastly different perspectives. |
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The Compromise of 1850... |
failed to come to grips with several important issues. |
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The law passed in 1850 that generated emotional opposition in the North was... |
the new fugitive slave law. |
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One warning in 1852 of a coming crisis was.. |
the difficulty the political parties had in selecting their presidential nominees. |
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The federal legislation that pushed the national party system into crisis was... |
the Kansas-Nebraska Act. |
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In her letter to her sister, Florella Adair... |
indicated that free-soil men faced being murdered by pro-slavery ruffians. |
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Nativist politics in the 1850s were shaped by the... |
Know Nothings. |
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With the election of 1856... |
the Republicans established themselves as a viable political party. |
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In the Dred Scott decision, Chief Justice Roger Taney... |
declared that the African Americans were not citizens of the United States and had no legal rights. |
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When the territorial government of Kansas submitted the LeCompton Constitution to Congress. |
Senator Stephen Douglas's position led to deep divisions that threatened to destroy the Democratic Party. |
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The dramatic event that helped further polarize the nation in 1859 was... |
John Brown's raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry. |
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As the secession crisis began, Abraham Lincoln... |
refused to consider any compromise that allowed the expansion of slavery. |
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When President-elect Lincoln arrived in Washington DC... |
many people feared that he lacked the leadership skills necessary to meet the developing crisis. |
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The election of 1860 seemed to reveal that... |
the sharp sectional differences over slavery were irreconcilable. |