Exam 14: The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860

____________________ of foreign-born workers settled in free states.

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 ____________________.

____ asserted that southern slaves enjoyed a higher standard of living than northern laborers.

The most important crop in the south was

One feature of industry pioneered by the United States was

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

Explore the importance of nativism to U.S. politics in the 1850s.

Most immigrants before 1830 were

In the south ____________________ was king.

____________________ caned Charles Sumner.

By the late 1850s, the United States was the second-leading industrial producer in the world.

Most former northern members of the American Party became

One of the problems of the southern economy on the eve of the Civil War was

Many southerners read The Impending Crisis of the South.

The elections of 1854 were disastrous for northern Democrats.

Describe the issues and events involved in "Bleeding Kansas."

The gap between the rich and poor was larger in the north than in the south.

Most northerners left the Know-Nothings and became Republicans because of

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

Dred Scott sued for ____________________.