Exam 14: The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860

After his Kansas speech, ____________________ was attacked in the Senate by a U.S. representative from South Carolina.

The most important social distinction in the antebellum South was ____________________.

The most important social distinction in the south was

Most immigrants in the 1850s joined the

The Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court involved a slave who

It was David R. Atchison who insisted that the Missouri Compromise had to be explicitly repealed in order for the South to accept the organization of the Nebraska Territory.

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

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

In The Impending Crisis of the South, Hinton Rowan Helper

The Impending Crisis of the South exaggerated the disaffection of most non-slaveholders in the South.

How many Supreme Court Justices voted in favor of Dred Scott?

Southerners had a larger percentage of their capital invested in lands and slaves in 1860 than they had had ten years earlier.

Application of popular sovereignty to the Nebraska Territory was the brainchild of Stephen A. Douglas.

Which of the following was not among the nation's four leading industries measured by value added in manufacturing by 1860?

The southern economy was "colonial" in that

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

Missourians who went to Kansas solely to vote proslavery were called ____________________.

By the late 1850s, the United States was behind only ____________________ in total industrial production.

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

____________________ was the North Carolinian who wrote The Impending Crisis of the South.