APUSH Unit 5 questions with correct answers

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Answer 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 - Answer 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 - Answer 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 - Answer 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 - Answer 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 - Answer Lowered duties on imports in response to a high Treasury surplus and pressure from Southern farmers.