Exam 14: The Gathering Tempest

Missourians who went to Kansas solely to vote proslavery were called_____________.

Examine the political crisis of the 1850s. What were the origins of this crisis, the central issues involved, and the repercussions for the United States?

The final act that destroyed the Whigs as a national political party was the

One feature of industry pioneered by the United States was

Describe the free-labor ideology and the southern response to it.

After serving four terms in the Illinois legislature and one term in Congress, Abraham Lincoln was propelled back into politics by the shock of

In the Kansas territorial election of 1855,

_____________ said, "If Kansas is driven out of the Union for being a slave state, can any Slave State remain in it with honor?"

A feature of modern industry that utilizes machines to cut identical parts that fit together with other parts produced in the same way is mass production of_____________.

Southern Whigs felt betrayed by Zachary Taylor on the issue of California's status.

The first Republican presidential candidate (1856) was_____________.

John Brown was noted for all of the following except

In the presidential election of 1856, some southerners threatened to secede if_____________ won.

By 1855, cotton provided more than of total U.S. exports.

The central issue in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 was

The 3 million immigrants that entered the United States in the decade after 1845 represented percent of the total America population in 1845.

_____________was the North Carolinian who wrote The Impending Crisis of the South.

It was David R. Atchison who insisted that the Missouri Compromise had to be explicitly repealed in order for the South to accept the organization of the Nebraska Territory.

The Dred Scott decision denied the power of_____________ to restrict slavery in the territories.

With regard to the Kansas issue, President Franklin Pierce