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Chapter 14 What national issue took center stage in the presidential election campaign of 1848? What provisions did the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 include to address the issue of slavery in the for... mer Indian territory? When it was founded in 1854, what was the Republican Party's goal regarding the issue of slavery? What was U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's political orientation in the 1850s? Which was the first state to secede from the Union after Lincoln's election to the presidency in 1860? What was the Whigs' strategy in the presidential election of 1848? By what means had some individual Northerners been aiding runaway slaves before the 1850s? How did Democrats portray the Republican Party during the election of 1856? Republicans based their response to the Dred Scott ruling on the dissenting opinion of which Supreme Court justice? How did many Christians in the North respond to the death of John Brown in 1859? Which candidate won the presidential election of 1848? Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, became an opponent of slavery because of her background as a The presidential election of 1856 made it obvious that Who massacred five allegedly proslavery settlers along Pottawatomie Creek in Kansas in 1856? What group denounced Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas in the spring of 1860? How did Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois win passage of the resolutions in Henry Clay's omnibus bill? What city became a center of grassroots resistance against the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850? Who sustained the Democratic Party once antislavery Americans abandoned it in 1854? Why did Stephen A. Douglas come out against the proslavery Lecompton constitution in 1857? What did the Republicans include in their 1860 presidential platform? Why did many Northerners oppose the extension of slavery into the land gained from the war with Mexico? What happened to Nebraska's Plains Indians when the United States altered the status of their territory? Which issue sparked the development of the Republican Party? In the 1850s, Abraham Lincoln believed that the Constitution Who did the original Democratic Party nominate for president to oppose Abraham Lincoln in 1860? When it came up for a vote in 1847, the Wilmot Proviso Who did northern state legislatures aim to protect when they passed personal liberty laws in the 1830s? What did the Whig Party's showing in the presidential election of 1852 demonstrate? Which of the following statements describes Abraham Lincoln's view on black equality during the 1850s? Who carried the most slave states in the election of 1860? The Free-Soil Party did not win a single state in the election of 1848, but it succeeded, in a sense, by Who wrote the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin? The Know-Nothing Party that emerged in the 1850s arose from the split between What was the result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates? What did southern Democrats demand at the convention in Charleston in April 1860? In the debate over the Wilmot Proviso, why did Senator John C. Calhoun contend that Congress did not have the authority to ban slavery in the territories? After she published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852, Southerners characterized Harriet Beecher Stowe as a The official name of the nineteenth-century Know-Nothing Party was the In order to ensure the outcome they desired in Kansas, both proslavery and antislavery forces Most Northerners believed which of the following statements about John Brown's 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia? How did David Wilmot's Proviso propose dealing with slavery in the lands acquired in the Mexican War? What critical obstacle did Illinois senator Stephen Douglas face as he maneuvered to route a transcontinental railroad through Chicago in the 1850s? Why did women flock to the Republican Party, even though they could not vote for its candidates? What did the Supreme Court rule in its 1857 decision in the Dred Scott case? What was the outcome of the raid on Harper's Ferry for John Brown himself? Why did Daniel Webster of Massachusetts argue that it was unnecessary for Congress to enact a legal ban on slavery in the territories? Who were the "doughfaces" of the mid-nineteenth century? How did the Democratic Party manage to capture the presidency in the election of 1856 even though it had lost so many of its northern supporters? How did Republicans respond to the Dred Scott ruling? Why did some southern Democrats decide to create the Constitutional Union Party during the presidential election of 1860? What cause did Franklin Pierce embrace in 1852 as he tried to put the sectional controversy in the past? Why did the Know-Nothing Party emerge in the 1850s? Who, in addition to Harriet Beecher Stowe, published an influential indictment of slavery during the decades preceding the Civil War? Why did the Democratic Party lose its dominance in the free states after 1854? What did President Taylor do to cause the issue of slavery in the territories to erupt in Congress in 1849? Agreement on which issue kept the Democrats relatively united in the 1850s? The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 allowed the seizure of an alleged slave after a slaveholder appeared before an appointed commissioner and Which question about the institution of slavery did Americans face in the 1840s and 1850s? What did the Free-Soil Party call for in its 1848 presidential platform? What effect did the new party system have on politics during the 1850s? This map demonstrates which of the following political shifts that occurred between 1848 and 1860? What about the doctrine of popular sovereignty made it attractive to Northerners and Southerners alike? In the mid-nineteenth century, what did most Americans believe the Constitution said about who had the power to decide about the existence of slavery in the United States? What was the response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin? Which group of politicians was known as the "fire-eaters"? Which element of slavery formed the central theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe's book? Which of the following were some of the key elements of the Compromise of 1850? How did antislavery Whigs respond to their party's nomination of the slave owner Zachary Taylor as its presidential candidate in 1848? Who did the Republicans nominate for the U.S. presidency in 1856? Why did Northerners object to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act? What caused the disillusion of the Know-Nothing Party during the election of 1856? The nineteenth-century Know-Nothing Party demonstrated its political success when it captured What happened to the Know-Nothing Party in the election of 1856? The notion of popular sovereignty, when applied to the U.S. territories in the mid-nineteenth century, meant that The poster advertising Uncle Tom's Cabin, which proclaimed the novel "The Greatest Book of the Age," was intended for what audience? Which U.S. senator proposed the popular sovereignty approach as a compromise solution to the issue of slavery in the U.S. territories in the mid-nineteenth century? To what were Northerners referring when they talked about "free labor" in the mid-nineteenth century? Which senator won passage of the resolutions in Henry Clay's omnibus bill by breaking the bill into its various parts for separate voting? Which requirement made Stephen A. Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act controversial? Why did President Pierce send diplomat James Gadsden to purchase some 30,000 square miles from Mexico in 1853? Why did the Democrats nominate Lewis Cass of Michigan as their candidate for the election of 1848? Why did some Americans call David Wilmot's proposal the "White Man's Proviso"? Why did half of the northern Democrats vote in favor of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? Who did the Know-Nothings nominate for president in 1856? Why did Uncle Tom's Cabin solidify northern sentiment against slavery? How did northern states begin to provide fugitive slaves with protection from their owners during the 1830s? Why was the Whig candidate, General Winfield Scott of Virginia, so badly defeated in the election of 1852? Why did the Democrats nominate Franklin Pierce as their presidential candidate in 1852? [Show More]

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