CHAPTER 19 - DRIFTING TOWARD DISUNION

REVISED

1. How did Harriet Beecher Stowe help encourage the Civil War?
2. What was " Bleeding Kansas"? How did it cause the break up of the Democratic party?
   
3. What was the Summer-Brooks incident? What did it show about the North and the South?
   
4. What were the Know-Nothings? Whom did they nominate for president?
   
5. Who won the election of 1856? How come?
   
6. What effect did the Dred Scott Decision have on the slavery issue?
   
7. How did the Panic of 1857 help to get Lincoln elected in 1860?
   
8. What were the Lincoln-Douglas debates? Why were they important?
   
9. Who was "Osawatomie Brown"? What did the North think of him? What did the South think of him? To what extent do you agree with what he did?
   
10. Which state law led the secessionist movement? Who became the first president of the C.S.A.?
    
11. How did the Crittenden Compromise proposeto "save the union"? Why did it fail?
    
12. Why did the South secede?