APUSH Ch. 20 Studyguide
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- Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Greatly strengthend northern antislavery feeling
- Hinton R. Helper's "The Impending Crisis of the South" contended that
- Slavery deeply harmed the poor whites of the South
- The conflict over slavery in Kansas
- Was greatly escalated by abolitionist-funded settlers and proslavery "border ruffians" from Missouri
- As presented to Congress, the Lecompton Constitution provided for
- a statewide referendum on slavery to be held after Kansas's admission to the Union ???
- The fanatical abolitionist John Brown made his first entry into vioent antislavery politics by
- Killing five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas
- The Summer-Brooks affair revealed
- How dangerously inflamed passions over slavery were becoming in both North and South
- The election of 1856 was most noteworthy for
- the Democrats' suprising loss of the White House
- In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court
- Avoided controversy by ruling that the slave Dred Scott had no right to sue in federal court
- The panic of 1857 encouraged the South to believe that
- its economy was fundamentally stronger than that of the North
- A key issue in the Lincoln-Douglas debates was
- whether the people of a territory could prohibit slavery in light of the Dred Scott decision
- The South was particularly enraged by the John Brown affair because
- the believed Brown's violent abolitionist sentiments were shared by the whole North
- In the campaign of 1860, the Democratic Party
- Split in two, with each faction nominating its own presidential candidate
- Lincoln won the presidency
- with an electoral majority derivved only from the North
- Within two months after the election of Lincoln,
- seven southern states had seceded and formed the Confederate States of America
- Lincoln rejected the proposed Crittenden Compromise because
- it permitted the further extension of slavery south of the liine 36'30''