APUSH Chapter 19 multiple choice
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
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was strongly rooted in religiously based antislavery sentiments
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Hinton R. Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South contended that
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slavery did great harm to the poor whites of the South
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Southerners were especially enraged by abolitionists' funding of antislavery settlers in Kansas because
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Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska had seemed to imply that Kansas would become a slave state
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As submitted to Congress, the Lecompton Constitution was designed to
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bring Kansas into the Union, while making it impossible to prohibit slavery there
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The fanatical abolitionist John Brown made his first entry into violent antislavery politics by
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killing five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas
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Congressman Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner nearly to death on the Senate floor because
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Sumner had used abusive language to describe the South and a South Carolina senator
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The election of 1856 was most noteworthy for
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the dramatic rise of the Republican party
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In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court
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ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in any of the territories because slaves were private property of which owners could not be deprived
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The financial and economic collapse of 1857 increased northern anger at the South's refusal to support
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higher tariffs and free western homesteads for farmers
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The crucial Freeport Question that Lincoln demanded that Douglas answer during their debates was whether
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the people of a territory could prohibit slavery in light of the Dred Scott decision
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Southerners were particularly enraged by the John Brown affair because
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northerners' celebration of Brown as a martyr seemed to indicate their support for slave insurrection
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In the campaign of 1860, the Democratic party
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split in two, with each faction nominating its own presidential candidate
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During the campaign of 1860, Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party
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opposed the expansion of slavery but did not threaten to attack slavery in the South
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Within two months after the election of Lincoln
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seven southern states had seceded and formed the Confederate States of America
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Lincoln rejected the proposed Crittenden Compromise primarily because
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it left open the possibility that slavery could expand south into Mexico, Central America, or the Caribbean
