Chapter 19
“Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861”
Study Guide 

1.  Relate the sequence of major crises that led from the
     Kansas-Nebraska Act to secession.

2.  Explain how and why “Bleeding Kansas” became a dress
     rehearsal for Civil War.

3.  Trace the growing power of the Republican party in the 1850s and
     the increasing divisions and helplessness of the Democrats.

4.  Explain how the Dred Scott decision and Brown’s Ferry raid
     deepened sectional antagonism.

5.  Trace the rise of Lincoln as the leading exponent of the
     Republican doctrine of no expansion of slavery.

6.  Analyze the complex election of 1860 in relation to the sectional crisis.

7.  Describe the movement toward secession, the formation of
     the Confederacy, and the failure of the last compromise effort. 

Identification:
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Impending Crisis of the South
“Bleeding Kansas”
Lecompton Constitution
Know-Nothing party
Dred Scott case
Panic of 1857
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Constitutional Union party
Crittenden Compromise 

More Identification: Harriet Beecher Stowe; Hinton R. Helper; New England Emigrant Aid Society; John Brown; James Buchanan; Charles Sumner; Preston Brooks; John C. Fremont; Dred Scott; Harpers Ferry; Stephen A. Douglas; Osawatomie Creek, Kansas; John C. Breckenridge; Montgomery, Alabama; Jefferson Davis