APUSH Unit 5 Questions And Answers With Verified Study Solutions

Uncle Tom's Cabin Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1853 that highly influenced england's view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict. Lecompton Constitution Supported the existence of slavery in the proposed state and protected rights of slaveholders. It was rejected by Kansas, making Kansas an eventual free state. Bleeding Kansas A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent. Dred Scott v. Standford landmark supreme court decision which confirmed that status of slaves as property rather than citizens, and therefore the case was thrown out by Chief Justice Roger B Taney Panic of 1857 Economic downturn caused by overspeculation of western lands, railroads, gold in California, grain. Mostly affected northerners, who called for higher tariffs and free homesteads Tariff of 1857 Lowered duties on imports in response to a high Treasury surplus and pressure from Southern farmers. Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1858 Senate Debate, Lincoln forced Douglas to debate issue of slavery, Douglas supported pop-sovereignty, Lincoln asserted that slavery should not spread to territories, Lincoln emerged as strong Republican candidate Freeport Question Idea that any territory could ban slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it Freeport Doctrine Idea authored by Stephen Douglas that claimed slavery could only exist when popular sovereignty said soHarpers Ferry/John Brown Harpers Ferry contained a US Armament. John Brown, a radical abolitionist attacked the baracks only to fail in getting guns for enslvaved southerners. Later hung on Dec 2 Constitutional Union Party a former political party in the United States Confederate States of America the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 Crittenden Amendments/ John Crittenden These amendements to the Constitution were designed to appease the south by prohibiting slavery north of 36, 30' but allowed protection south of this line. It also allowed future states to enter with or without slavery regardless of their position north or south