Lincoln douglas debates Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Continued Problems with Slavery The Kansas-Nebraska Act was proposed by: - correct answer Stephen Douglas The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the: - correct answer Missouri Compromise Bitter confrontations over what issue earned the new Kansas territory the name "Bleeding Kansas"? - correct answer Slavery Preston Brooks attacked Senator ________ because he criticized Senators Douglas and Butler for their support of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. - correct answer Charles Sumner Although Lin...

Kansas Nebraska act 1854Stephen Douglas - correct answer Who came up with the Kansas Nebraska act Kansas, Nebraska - correct answer What did the Kansas Nebraska act do? I divided the rest of the Louisiana territory into two territories 1. Blank and 2. Blank Popular sovereignty - correct answer Slavery would be decided by blank blank people who would vote to decide if they would be free or slave states. Eliminated the ban of slavery north of 3630 line and create more friction between f...

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 t...

DSST The Civil War and Reconstruction Elijah Lovejoy - ANS-Which of the following was an anti-slavery activist who died defending his press in Alton, Illinois in 1837? Kentucky - ANS-In which of the following states were slaves freed by the 13th Amendment, rather than by state legislation or the Emancipation Proclamation? February 17, 1865 - ANS-When was the city of Charleston evacuated in anticipation of the arrival of General William Sherman? Ambrose E. Burnside - ANS-After the Battl...

History 1301 Unit 4 - Chapter 14. Questions and answers. Graded A+ Charles Summer--In 1856, which antislavery senator was almost beaten to death on the floor of the U.S Senate by Representative Preston Brooks? Uncle Tom's Cabin--Harriet Beecher Stowe published her abolitionist novel ... in 1852, and it was enormously successful. He favored restricting slavery to the states where the Constitution protected it.--How did Abraham Lincoln argue about slavery in his debates with Stephen Dougla...

Which of the following states the principle of "popular sovereignty?" The settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery will be permitted there. Of the following, the most threatening problem for the Union from 1861 through 1863 was Possible British recognition of the Confederacy Why did Congressional Reconstruction end in 1877? The Republican and Democratic parties effected a compromise agreement after the 1876 presidential election. ...

WGU US History Exam-227 Questions with Complete Solutions In the Cali Gold Rush - CORRECT ANSWER Upwards of 95% were white men In the 1820's, most of the settlers from the United States who migrated to Texas were - CORRECT ANSWER whites from the Farr West Before the early 1850s, Americans who traveled west on the overland trails were generally - CORRECT ANSWER relatively young people who traveled in family groups When it came to the issue of the extension of slavery, President James K. P...

DSST The Civil War and Reconstruction Elijah Lovejoy - ANS-Which of the following was an anti-slavery activist who died defending his press in Alton, Illinois in 1837? Kentucky - ANS-In which of the following states were slaves freed by the 13th Amendment, rather than by state legislation or the Emancipation Proclamation? February 17, 1865 - ANS-When was the city of Charleston evacuated in anticipation of the arrival of General William Sherman? Ambrose E. Burnside - ANS-After the Battl...

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was strongly rooted in religiously based antislavery sentiments Hinton R. Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South contended that slavery did great harm to the poor whites of the South Southerners were especially enraged by abolitionists' funding of antislavery settlers in Kansas because Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska had seemed to imply that Kansas would become a slave state As submitted to Congress, the Lecompton Constitution ...

HIST 405N Week 4 Discussion 1: Stepping Stones to the Civil War – The Compromise of 1850, The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, The Lincoln Douglas Debates of 1858