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Before you take the Chapter Quiz, review what you learned in this chapter: In chapter 19, you learned how disagreements between the North and south led to the Civil War. In the 1800s, the United States was expanding. Each time a territory wanted to become a state, there was disagreement over the issue of slavery. The North did not want to admit more slave states. The South thought slavery should be allowed in all new territories and states. neither side wanted the other to have the majority in congress. The South was afraid the North would abolish slavery if it had the majority. The sectional crisis began when President Zachary Taylor wanted Congress to admit California as a free state. This made the south angry. The Compromise of 1850 solved the problem in Congress. It did not solve the problem for the people. The country was still divided over the issue of slavery. The Kansas and nebraska Territories caused another crisis. The Compromise of 1850 outlawed slavery in these territories. Senator Stephen Douglas wanted the South to vote to admit the territories. He proposed a plan of popular sovereignty. many people in the North felt the plan violated the Missouri Compromise. Free-soilers did not want slavery in any new territories. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was finally passed, but it tore apart the Whig Party. The Republican Party was formed as an anti-nebraska party. The divide between the North and South grew. In Kansas, there was violence between proslavery and antislavery settlers. The, in the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court struck down the Missouri Compromise. It ruled that slaves who lived in free states were not automatically free. The South supported the decision. The North did not. In another crisis, abolitionists raided the arsenal at Harpers Ferry to get weapons for a slave uprising. The leader, John Brown, was tried and hanged. The North made him a hero. This shocked the South. The final straw for the south was the election of Abraham Lincoln as president. many Southerners feared Lincoln would abolish slavery. Southern states began to secede from the Union. Handout: Chapter 19 Vocabulary Exercise Match each of the following vocabulary words to its meaning. Write the letter of the term on the blank next to the correct definition or example. You will not use all of the letters: __1. leading judge of the Supreme Court 2. person who opposed expansion of slavery into new territories 3. a way to give both sides part of what they wanted 4. place for the federal government to store weapons 5. legislation proposed by Stephen Douglas 6. idea that people should vote about slavery in new territories 7. part of the process of becoming a state 8. record of history, usually yearly 9. to withdraw from _10. division of congressional voting according to North-South lines a. sectional crisis b. territorial stage c. secede d. compromise e. Fugitive Slave Law f. personal liberty law g. popular sovereignty h. Kansas-Nebraska Bill i. free-soiler j. chief justice k. annals l. federal arsenal m. Uprising Handout: Biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896 During the Civil War, Harriet Beecher Stowe visited the White House. There she met President Abraham Lincoln. "So this is the little lady who made this big war'" the president asked, as he shook her hand. The president exaggerated, but not much. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, had helped drive the wedge between the North and South tht led to the Civil War. Harriet was born in 1811. Her father was Lyman Beecher, a leading revival preacher in Connecticut. When Harriet was twenty-one, the family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. She taught school there for three years. At age twenty-four, she married Calvin Stowe, who also was a minister. The most important thing Harriet did in Cincinnati was to cross the Ohio River to visit Kentucky. There she encountered slavery firthand. She saw slaves abused. She learned about slave families broken up by the sale of a parent. She heard about a slave woman who escaped with her baby over the frozen Ohio River. She filed this away for future use. For 15 year, harriet was busy raising a family. In the meantime, she and her family moved to Maine. She lived a private life. That suddenly changed in 1851, when Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law. Under that law, slave catchers wen north to bring home runaway slaves. harriet was shocked to read about former slaves being taken back to the South in chains. Harriet's memories of Kentucky came flooding back. She wove these mental pictures into a story called Uncle Tom's Cabin. When it was published in 1852, the novel caused a sensation. it was devoured by readers in the North. In its first two years, the book sold over one million copies. It aroused antislavery feeling in the North like nothing else ever had. Harriet Beecher Stowe lived to be eighty-five. She died in 1896. She is remembered as the little lady who wrote a powerful book that helped bring on the Civil War.