Exam 14: The Gathering Tempest

The first year that the Republican Party ran a presidential candidate was 1854.

George Fitzhugh's book Cannibals All reinforced what Helper had written in The Impending Crisis.

Examine the important repercussions of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.

Compare northern and southern images of each other and their own regions during the turbulent 1850s.

By 1856, most northern Know-Nothings had become_____________.

Economic diversification made no headway in the South during the 1850s.

The subject of Charles Sumner's speech that led to his beating on the floor of Congress was

Four million immigrants came to the United States between 1845 and 1860.

_____________of foreign-born workers settled in free states.

George Fitzhugh supported the free-market capitalist system.

No southern justices supported the Dred Scott decision.

The Whig candidate for president in 1852 was_____________.

Most immigrants in the 1850s joined the

The Know-Nothing Party was so named because its members were ignorant and uneducated.

The Republican Party advocated racial equality in the election of 1856.

When two competing legislatures emerged in Kansas, the House of Representatives recognized the one that supported slavery.

The name Democrats gave Republicans who they felt favored racial equality was_____________.

A constitution designed to impose slavery on Kansas was the_____________ constitution.

Examine the Kansas-Nebraska Act and describe its role in pushing the nation closer to Civil War.

About_____________ "border ruffians" from Missouri voted illegally in the spring of 1855 to elect a proslavery territorial legislature in Kansas.