Exam 18: Drifting Toward Disunion

Always in 1787, 1820, 1833, and 1850, the North and South had been able to compromise over their sectional political, economic, and social differences. Why not in 1861?

John Brown's execution produced all of the following results EXCEPT

Identify and state the historical significance of the Confederate States of America.

The proposed Crittenden Compromise, if adopted, would have

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the Harpers Ferry raid.

Consider the arguments presented by the nationalist school, the progressive historians, and ethnocultural school on the cause of the civil war. Create your own argument to explain the repressibility or irrepressibility of the Civil War.

Secessionists supported leaving the Union for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

In the Dred Scott case, the U.S. Supreme Court made all of the following determinations EXCEPT

Identify and state the historical significance of John C. Fremont.

Identify and state the historical significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

President James Buchanan declined to use force to keep the seven southern secessionist states in the Union for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

What was responsible for the violence in "Bleeding Kansas"? Why might the violence be viewed as a "prelude to Civil War"?

Identify and state the historical significance of John Crittenden.

Identify and state the historical significance of the American or Know-Nothing party.

The panic of 1857

For a majority of northerners, the MOST outrageous part of the several objectionable parts of the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney's majority opinion (decision) in the Dred Scott case was that the Court ruled that

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

When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, people in South Carolina

The authors argue that despite Lincoln's election in 1860, the South "was not badly off." What do they mean? Why, in spite of this, did southern states secede?