Question 1

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin

Accepted Answer

A)  intended to show the cruelty of slavery. 
B)  was prompted by passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. 
C)  comprised the recollections of a long-time personal witness to the evils of slavery. 
D)  received little notice at the time it was published but became widely read during the Civil War. 
E)  portrayed blacks as militant resisters to slavery. 
A)  intended to show the cruelty of slavery. 
B)  was prompted by passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. 
C)  comprised the recollections of a long-time personal witness to the evils of slavery. 
D)  received little notice at the time it was published but became widely read during the Civil War. 
E)  portrayed blacks as militant resisters to slavery.

Question 2

To what extent did each of these individuals contribute to the commencement of the Civil War in April 1861: John Brown, Stephen Douglas, and Abraham Lincoln?

Accepted Answer

John Brown, Stephen Douglas, and Abraham

Question 3

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?

Accepted Answer

The Crittenden Compromise, proposed in D

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin

To what extent did each of these individuals contribute to the commencement of the Civil War in April 1861: John Brown, Stephen Douglas, and Abraham Lincoln?

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The Planting of English America, 1500-1733

Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700

American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692

Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775

The Duel for North America, 1608-1763

The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775

America Secedes from the Empire, 1775-1783

The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790

Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800

The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic, 1800-1812

The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812-1824

The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 1824-1840

Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860

The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860

The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860

Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848

Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854

Girding for War: The North and the South, 1861-1865

The Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865

The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

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Exam 19: Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin

To what extent did each of these individuals contribute to the commencement of the Civil War in April 1861: John Brown, Stephen Douglas, and Abraham Lincoln?

New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C.E.-1769 C.E.

The Planting of English America, 1500-1733

Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700

American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692

Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775

The Duel for North America, 1608-1763

The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775

America Secedes from the Empire, 1775-1783

The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790

Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800

The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic, 1800-1812

The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812-1824

The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 1824-1840

Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860

The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860

The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860

Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848

Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854

Girding for War: The North and the South, 1861-1865

The Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865

The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

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