American Pageant Chapter 19 p. 409-433
1. As the 1850s progressed, how did the slavery situation produce even more tension:
 in Kansas Territory in the Supreme Court in presidential politicsStowe and Helper: Literary Incendiaries
2. What aspect of slavery did Stowe focus on in Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
3. What was the international reacting to the novel and subsequent dramatizations?
4. How did the south regard the novel?
5. What was the theme of Hinton Helper’s Impending Crisis?
6. How did Southern elites react to the book?
The North-South Contest for Kansas
7. What was the New England Emigrant Aid Company?
8. What were Beecher’s Bibles?
9. Why didn’t slavery become established in Kansas?
10. What impact did border ruffians have on the vote in 1855?
11. How did Kansas come to have two territorial capitals?
12. What happened in the town of Lawrence?
Kansas in Convulsion
13. Who was John Brown?
14. What happened at Pottawatomie Creek?
15. What conclusions can be drawn from Kansas regarding the success of popular sovereignty in deciding the issue of
slavery in the territories?
16. Describe the Lecompton Constitution.
17. What did Buchanan do to further alienate the Douglas Democrats?
18. How did this affect the last remaining national political party?
“Bully” Brooks and His Bludgeon
19. What does the Brooks-Sumner affair reveal about the possibility of settling the slavery issue with political or
parliamentary debate?
“Old Buck” versus “The Pathfinder”
20. Who did Democrats nominate in the Election of 1856?
21. Who did the Republicans nominate?
22. What was the Republican platform?
23. What was the Democratic platform?
24. Describe the Know-Nothing Party.
25. Who did the Know-Nothing Party nominate in the election of 1856?
The Electoral Fruits of 1856
26. Why did Buchanan win the election?
27. How was the Election of 1856 a “victorious defeat” for the Republican party?
The Dred Scott Bombshell
28. On what grounds did Dred Scott sue for his freedom?
29. What were the three major parts of the decision in Scott v Sanford?
30. Which previous agreements and compromises over the issue of slavery were declared unconstitutional with this
decision?
31. How did Republicans regard the decision?
The Financial Crash of 1857
32. What caused the financial crash of 1857?
33. How did the Panic affect the Northern economy?
34. What two demands did it stimulate?
The Great Debate: Lincoln Versus Douglas
35. What office were Lincoln and Douglas running for when they held a series of debates in 1858?
36. How did Lincoln corner Douglas on the inconsistency between the Dred Scott decision and Douglas’s support for
popular sovereignty?
37. Describe the Freeport Doctrine.
38. Who won the election?
John Brown: Murderer or Martyr?
39. What was John Brown hoping to accomplish at Harper’s Ferry?
40. Describe the differing reactions to Brown’s death:
 South Moderate Northerners Abolitionists and ardent free-soilersThe Disruption of the Democrats
41. What happened to the Democratic Party when they attempted to nominate a candidate for the Election of 1860?
42. What was the platform of Douglas and the Northern Democratic Party?
43. What was the platform of Breckenridge and the southern Democratic Party?
44. What was the platform of Bell and the Constitutional Union Party?
A Rail Splitter Splits the Union
45. Why was Lincoln the favored candidate of the Republicans?
46. What were the six planks of the Republican platform and which groups were they each designed to appeal to?
47. Was Lincoln an abolitionist?
The Electoral Upheaval of 1860
48. What % of the popular vote did Lincoln get?
49. Which section gave him no electoral votes?
50. If the Democrats had not split, would they have won?
51. Was the election of Lincoln real cause for southern secession?
52. The South, despite its electoral defeat still was pretty well off, explain.
The Secessionist Exodus
53. Which state first voted to secede?
54. Which six states followed?
55. What was created in Montgomery in February, 1861?
56. What is a “lame duck” president? Which amendment fixed this problem?
57. Who was president during the “lame duck” period?
58. Why did Buchanan do nothing?
59. Were Northerners willing to fight in early 1861?
The Collapse of Compromise
60. What did the Crittenden Compromise propose?
61. Why did Lincoln reject the Crittenden Compromise?
Farewell to Union
62. What erroneous assumption did most southerners make when they decided to secede?
63. How did southerners justify what they had done:
 economically politically morally historically-