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US - 12-3 StudyGuide
Study Guide for Chapter 12-3 Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write? | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| What was the effect of the description in Uncle Tom's Cabin of slavery as a cruel and inhumane system? | It added fuel to the antislavery feelings in the North |
| Why was the Kansas-Nebraska Act controversial? | It proposed opening up the lands north of the 36° 30' line of latitude to slavery for the first time in 30-some years |
| Why did proslavery and antislavery groups rush their supporters to Kansas? | For the 1855 elections |
| Why did Stephen Douglas propose organizing the lands west of Missouri and Iowa into Kansas and Nebraska territories? | to encourage settlement of the West to open the way for the transcontinental railroad |
| Why wasn't Senator Charles Sumner able to return to work in the Senate for several years? | He was severely beaten by Rep. Preston Brooks on the floor of the Senate. |
| Who did President Lincoln blame for starting the Civil War? LOL | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| What was popular sovereignty? | The idea that the people of a territory should be given the right to vote for whether, or not, they wanted slavery to be legal. |
| When did the Kansas-Nebraska Act pass Congress, get signed by the President, and become a law? | May 1854 |
| Who were Border Ruffians? | Proslavery people from Missouri who crossed the border into Kansas to vote in the election |
| Who attacked and murdered five proslavery settlers near Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas? | John Brown |
| Who attacked the town of Lawrence, Kansas in 1856? | 800 people who supported slavery |
| How did the violent clash over slavery spill into Congress? | Rep. Preston Brooks attacked and beat Sen. Charles Sumner for comments he made in a speech against the violence in Kansas and against Sen. Butler from South Carolina. |
| Because the Kansas-Nebraska Act opened up lands to slavery that had been free for more than 30 years, who opposed the Act? | Northerners |
| Who was the Illinois Senator who wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | Stephen Douglas |
| Why did Southerners support the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | They expected slaveowners from Missouri to settle in Kansas and make it a slave state |
| What two events showed the rising level of hostility between the North and the South? | the fighting in Kansas Preston Brooks beating Charles Sumner in the U.S. Senate |
| Senator Stephen Douglas was well known for what compromise? | The Compromise of 1850 |
| What compromise was abandoned when settlers in Kansas were allowed to vote on the issue of slavery? | The Missouri Compromise |
| The vote over which bill showed deep splits with Northern Democrats over the issue of slavery? | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| By January of 1856, how many governments did the state of Kansas have? | Two one proslavery and one antislavery |
| In the 1855 elections, only about __?__ people were legally able to vote in Kansas, but more than __?__ people actually voted. | 1500 6000 |
| Who was the Kansas governor who ordered 1300 federal troops into Kansas to stop the two guerrilla groups from fighting? | Gov. John Geary |
| The Kansas-Nebraska Act caused many northerners to believe that __?__ with the South was no longer possible? | compromise |
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