Out Of Many Chapter 15

Front 1

True or False

Americans were deeply interested in politics by 1858 because of a growing national crisis.

Back 1

True

Front 2

True or False

The American Renaissaince was characterized by a powerful pride in republican principles.

Back 2

False

Front 3

True or False

Northerners and southerners believed in Manifest Destiny, although each section had a different view of what that destiny meant.

Back 3

TRUE

Front 4

True or False

The 1850 Fugitive Slave Law made it more difficult for owners to capture and reclaim runaway slaves.

Back 4

False

Front 5

True or False

"Young America" was an expansionistic movement that focused in particular on obtaining territories in Canada and the Pacific Northwest.

Back 5

False

Front 6

True or False

In many ways "Bleeding Kansas" represented the violent divisions beginning to permeat the United States in the 1850s.

Back 6

TRUE

Front 7

True or False

The Charles Sumner-Preston Brooks affair was a violent episode that occurred between the two men because of their differences over slavery.

Back 7

TRUE

Front 8

True or False

The Panic of 1857 devastated the cotton market and convinced many southerners that their agricultural economy was inferior to the developing factory system.

Back 8

False

Front 9

True or False

The election of 1860 presented voters with candidates who had distinct differences in their approach to national policies.

Back 9

TRUE

Front 10

True or False

Most southern states approved secession by putting the issue to a vote by each state's citizens.

Back 10

FALSE

Front 11

By the senatorial campaign of 1858...

Back 11

many Americans believed that the nation's democratic institutions would provide a lasting political solution to the issues associated with slavery.

Front 12

As the United States entered the 1850s...

Back 12

northerners and southerners tended to view each other from vastly different perspectives.

Front 13

The Compromise of 1850...

Back 13

failed to come to grips with several important issues.

Front 14

The law passed in 1850 that generated emotional opposition in the North was...

Back 14

the new fugitive slave law.

Front 15

One warning in 1852 of a coming crisis was..

Back 15

the difficulty the political parties had in selecting their presidential nominees.

Front 16

The federal legislation that pushed the national party system into crisis was...

Back 16

the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Front 17

In her letter to her sister, Florella Adair...

Back 17

indicated that free-soil men faced being murdered by pro-slavery ruffians.

Front 18

Nativist politics in the 1850s were shaped by the...

Back 18

Know Nothings.

Front 19

With the election of 1856...

Back 19

the Republicans established themselves as a viable political party.

Front 20

In the Dred Scott decision, Chief Justice Roger Taney...

Back 20

declared that the African Americans were not citizens of the United States and had no legal rights.

Front 21

When the territorial government of Kansas submitted the LeCompton Constitution to Congress.

Back 21

Senator Stephen Douglas's position led to deep divisions that threatened to destroy the Democratic Party.

Front 22

The dramatic event that helped further polarize the nation in 1859 was...

Back 22

John Brown's raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry.

Front 23

As the secession crisis began, Abraham Lincoln...

Back 23

refused to consider any compromise that allowed the expansion of slavery.

Front 24

When President-elect Lincoln arrived in Washington DC...

Back 24

many people feared that he lacked the leadership skills necessary to meet the developing crisis.

Front 25

The election of 1860 seemed to reveal that...

Back 25

the sharp sectional differences over slavery were irreconcilable.