Exam 19: Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861

The central plank(s) of the Know-Nothing party in the 1856 election was/were  

The clash and political fallout between Congressman Preston S.Brooks of South Carolina and Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in 1856 revealed that  

Assess the validity of the following statement, "Kansas provided a horrible example of the working of popular sovereignty."

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

In "Varying Viewpoints," the authors argue that both Northerners and Southerners saw their way of life threatened by the time of the onset of the Civil War in April 1861.How and why could both Northerners and Southerners feel this way? Do you feel that both Northerners and Southerners were each justified in fearing that their different ways of life were each being threatened by crucial political, economic, and social developments in America from 1848 to 1861? How may northern and southern paranoid fears about the loss of their distinctive ways of life played a role in providing the political momentum for the drift toward disunion and ultimately the onset of the Civil War?

Harriet Beecher Stowe was described by President Abraham Lincoln as  

The Lecompton Constitution was written so that Kansas  

In his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown intended to  

In the presidential election of 1856, the Republicans  

In the North, the panic of 1857 created calls for  

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?

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.

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

Uncle Tom's Cabin may be described as  

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

In 1855, proslavery southerners regarded Kansas as  

Before his presidential nomination  by the Republican party in 1860, Abraham Lincoln had been  

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.

Abraham Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise because  

Match each presidential candidate in the 1860 election below with his party's position on the slavery question. A.Abraham Lincoln B.Stephen Douglas C.John Breckenridge D.John Bell 1)extend slavery into the territories 2)ban slavery from the territories 3)preserve the Union by compromise 4)enforce popular sovereignty