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US History I Chpt.14
Test Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| his book argued slavery was ruining the South Economically | Hinton Rowan Helper |
| his court case led the Supreme Court to declare the Fugitive Slave Act was constitutional | Stephen Ableman (Ableman v. Booth) |
| Republican candidate for president in 1860 | Lincoln |
| slave who sued for his freedom; Supreme Court ruled blacks are not citizens | Dred Scott |
| Whig candidate for president in 1852 | Winfield Scott |
| Southern Democratic candidate for president in 1860 | John C. Breckenridge |
| political party opposed to immigrants | Know-Nothings |
| led the attack on Harper's Ferry | John Brown |
| author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act | Stephen Douglas |
| movement to spread US democracy to other nations | Young America Movement |
| senator caned for his antislavery speech | Charles Sumner |
| Douglas's idea that a territory could avoid slavery by not passing laws allowing for slavery | Freeport Doctrine |
| winner of 1852 presidential election | Franklin Pierce |
| offered a compromise to keep the South in the Union; rejected by Lincoln | John J. Crittenden |
| home of pro-slavery government in Kansas | Lecompton Constitution |
| wrote Uncle tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| runaway slave President Pierce spent $100,000 returning to slavery | Anthony Burns |
| wrote the Ostend Manifesto saying the US should take Cuba from Spain | Pierre Soule |
| Constitutional Union party candidate for president in 1860 | John bell |
| Name all the candidates of the presidential election of 1860: | Lincoln: Republican Party Douglas: Whigs / Democrat Breckenridge: Southern Democrat Party Bell: Constitutional Union Party |