Exam 18: Drifting Toward Disunion

Assess the validity of the following statement: "It was probably fortunate for the Union that secession and civil war did not come in 1856, following a Republican victory."

Identify and state the historical significance of self-determination.

The Republicans lost the 1856 election in part because of

After John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, the South concluded that

To what extent was the Crittenden Compromise a realistic way to avoid Civil War? What, if any, modifications might have been made to the Crittenden Compromise of December 1860 to make it palatable to President Lincoln and his fellow Republicans, on the one hand, and to the South, on the other? How would your proposed modifications to the Crittenden Compromise influenced the views of the Border States toward possible secession?

Identify and state the historical significance of the New England Emigrant Aid Society.

What were the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court Dred Scott decision for a. b. the status of free blacks in the United States? ​ the concept of popular sovereignty? ​ c. the future of slavery in America? ​ d the respect for the Supreme Court as a coequal Constitutional institution by Republicans and other antislavery Americans? ​ ​

Identify and state the historical significance of Hinton R. Helper.

In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled that

In his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown intended to

Compare and contrast the criticism in Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South. Which had the more dramatic effect on public opinion? Why?

President James Buchanan's decision on Kansas's Lecompton Constitution

Identify and state the historical significance of Jefferson Davis.

Identify and state the historical significance of the Pottawatomie Creek massacre.

Identify and state the historical significance of Abraham Lincoln.

In the election of 1860, the Constitutional Union party was formed

Write your definition of national self-determination. Then use this definition to argue that southern secession in 1860-1861 was or was not an act of a people conscious of their own separate nationalism and determined to achieve it for themselves.

Rank the following in order of their importance to the commencement of the Civil War in April 1861: Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott decision, John Brown's raid, and Lincoln's election. Justify your ranking.

In 1855, pro-slavery southerners regarded Kansas as

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