Transcript Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854–1861

Chapter 19
Drifting Toward
Disunion, 1854–1861
Question
All of the following were true of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
EXCEPT
a) Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel had an unarguably large impact
on the American (and worldwide) debate over slavery.
b) historians rarely look to it for evidence of the mid-nineteenthcentury ideas and attitudes to which Stowe appealed.
c) Stowe cleverly aimed to mobilize, not simply, her readers’
sense of injustice, but also their sentiments, on behalf of the
antislavery cause.
d) Stowe’s appeal to sentiment succeeded much more
dramatically in exciting antislavery passions than the factual
and moral arguments of most male abolitionists.
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Answer
All of the following were true of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
EXCEPT
a) Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel had an unarguably large impact
on the American (and worldwide) debate over slavery.
b) historians rarely look to it for evidence of the mid-nineteenthcentury ideas and attitudes to which Stowe appealed. (correct)
c) Stowe cleverly aimed to mobilize, not simply, her readers’
sense of injustice, but also their sentiments, on behalf of the
antislavery cause.
d) Stowe’s appeal to sentiment succeeded much more
dramatically in exciting antislavery passions than the factual
and moral arguments of most male abolitionists.
Hint: See page 439.
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Question
The author of The Impending Crisis of the South
was
a) John C. Calhoun.
b) Hinton R. Helper.
c) Henry Clay.
d) Alfred T. Mahan.
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Answer
The author of The Impending Crisis of the South
was
a) John C. Calhoun.
b) Hinton R. Helper. (correct)
c) Henry Clay.
d) Alfred T. Mahan.
Hint: See page 439.
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Question
The primary goal of the New England Emigrant Aid
Company was to
a) resettle freed slaves in Liberia.
b) send abolitionists to Kansas to forestall proslaveryites.
c) return Irish immigrants to their homeland.
d) march western Cherokees back to their ancestral
homelands.
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Answer
The primary goal of the New England Emigrant Aid
Company was to
a) resettle freed slaves in Liberia.
b) send abolitionists to Kansas to forestall proslaveryites. (correct)
c) return Irish immigrants to their homeland.
d) march western Cherokees back to their ancestral
homelands.
Hint: See page 440.
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Question
All of the following were true of the Lecompton Constitution
EXCEPT
a) people were not allowed to vote for or against the constitution
as a whole, but for the constitution either “with slavery” or “with
no slavery.”
b) if they voted against slavery, one of the remaining provisions of
the constitution would protect the owners of slaves already in
Kansas.
c) many free-soilers, infuriated by this ploy, boycotted the polls.
d) the vast majority of Kansans were proslaveryites, who
approved the constitution with slavery late in 1857.
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Answer
All of the following were true of the Lecompton Constitution
EXCEPT
a) people were not allowed to vote for or against the constitution
as a whole, but for the constitution either “with slavery” or “with
no slavery.”
b) if they voted against slavery, one of the remaining provisions of
the constitution would protect the owners of slaves already in
Kansas.
c) many free-soilers, infuriated by this ploy, boycotted the polls.
d) the vast majority of Kansans were proslaveryites, who
approved the constitution with slavery late in 1857. (correct)
Hint: See page 441.
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Question
All of the following were aspects of Bleeding Kansas
EXCEPT
a) a gang of proslavery raiders, alleging provocation, shot up and
burned a part of the free-soil town of Lawrence.
b) Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina pounded Senator Charles
Sumner of Massachusetts with an eleven-ounce cane until it
broke.
c) John “Old Brown” of Osawatomie literally hacked to pieces five
surprised proslaveryites at Pottawatomie Creek.
d) John Brown and several followers attempted to start a slave
rebellion at Harpers Ferry.
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Answer
All of the following were aspects of Bleeding Kansas
EXCEPT
a) a gang of proslavery raiders, alleging provocation, shot up and
burned a part of the free-soil town of Lawrence.
b) Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina pounded Senator Charles
Sumner of Massachusetts with an eleven-ounce cane until it
broke.
c) John “Old Brown” of Osawatomie literally hacked to pieces five
surprised proslaveryites at Pottawatomie Creek.
d) John Brown and several followers attempted to start a slave
rebellion at Harpers Ferry. (correct)
Hint: See pages 441–442.
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Question
In Dred Scott v. Sanford, the Supreme Court did all of the
following EXCEPT
a) ruled that Dred Scott was a black slave and not a citizen, and
hence could not sue in federal courts.
b) decreed that because a slave was private property, he or she
could be taken into any territory and legally held there in
slavery.
c) ruled that Congress had no power to ban slavery from the
territories, regardless even of what the territorial legislatures
themselves might want.
d) decided that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was only
constitutional when applied to territory acquired in the Mexican
War.
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Answer
In Dred Scott v. Sanford, the Supreme Court did all of the
following EXCEPT
a) ruled that Dred Scott was a black slave and not a citizen, and
hence could not sue in federal courts.
b) decreed that because a slave was private property, he or she
could be taken into any territory and legally held there in
slavery.
c) ruled that Congress had no power to ban slavery from the
territories, regardless even of what the territorial legislatures
themselves might want.
d) decided that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was only
constitutional when applied to territory acquired in the Mexican
War. (correct)
Hint: See page 445.
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Question
The Lincoln-Douglas debates occurred during the
a) crisis over the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
b) division over the Dred Scott decision of
1857.
c) Illinois Senatorial campaign
of 1858.
d) presidential election of 1860.
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Answer
The Lincoln-Douglas debates occurred during the
a) crisis over the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
b) division over the Dred Scott decision of
1857.
c) Illinois Senatorial campaign
of 1858. (correct)
d) presidential election of 1860.
Hint: See page 448.
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Question
The Freeport Doctrine averred that
a) no matter how the Supreme Court ruled, slavery would stay
down if the people voted it down.
b) the Supreme Court was the final arbiter of constitutionality, and
citizens should respect the Dred Scott decision.
c) the Missouri Compromise was irrevocable, making the KansasNebraska Act unconstitutional.
d) the Compromise of 1850 required approval of the territorial
legislatures before becoming the law of the land.
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Answer
The Freeport Doctrine averred that
a) no matter how the Supreme Court ruled, slavery would stay
down if the people voted it down. (correct)
b) the Supreme Court was the final arbiter of constitutionality, and
citizens should respect the Dred Scott decision.
c) the Missouri Compromise was irrevocable, making the KansasNebraska Act unconstitutional.
d) the Compromise of 1850 required approval of the territorial
legislatures before becoming the law of the land.
Hint: See page 449.
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Question
The key figure behind the raid on Harpers Ferry
was
a) Robert E. Lee.
b) Wendell Phillips.
c) John Brown.
d) John Wilkes Booth.
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Answer
The key figure behind the raid on Harpers Ferry
was
a) Robert E. Lee.
b) Wendell Phillips.
c) John Brown. (correct)
d) John Wilkes Booth.
Hint: See page 450.
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Question
The presidential candidate for the Constitutional
Union party in 1860 was
a) Abraham Lincoln of Illinois.
b) John Bell of Tennessee.
c) John C. Breckenridge of Kentucky.
d) Steven Douglas of Illinois.
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Answer
The presidential candidate for the Constitutional
Union party in 1860 was
a) Abraham Lincoln of Illinois.
b) John Bell of Tennessee. (correct)
c) John C. Breckenridge of Kentucky.
d) Steven Douglas of Illinois.
Hint: See page 452.
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