Chapter 142. Reflections on The Sectional Balance Undone, Chapter 14

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Correct. The answer is d. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that slavery reemerged as a contentious sectional issue almost immediately after the passage of the Compromise of 1850, fueled in the 1850s by New Englanders’ opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act, the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and efforts to implement popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska.

Incorrect. The answer is d. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that slavery reemerged as a contentious sectional issue almost immediately after the passage of the Compromise of 1850, fueled in the 1850s by New Englanders’ opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act, the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and efforts to implement popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska.

Correct. The answer is c. The author argues that New Englanders’ chief objection to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was its stipulation that all American citizens must assist officials in apprehending runaways. Convinced that the law required them to become slave catchers, New Englanders protested the 1850 law with much more vigor than they had resisted earlier fugitive slave legislation.

Incorrect. The answer is c. The author argues that New Englanders’ chief objection to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was its stipulation that all American citizens must assist officials in apprehending runaways. Convinced that the law required them to become slave catchers, New Englanders protested the 1850 law with much more vigor than they had resisted earlier fugitive slave legislation.

Correct. The answer is d. The author argues that the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852, which described slavery’s destructive impact on the family, turned thousands of Northerners against slavery.

Incorrect. The answer is d. The author argues that the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852, which described slavery’s destructive impact on the family, turned thousands of Northerners against slavery.

Correct. The answer is a. To support his argument that Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book Uncle Tom’s Cabin helped to turn northern public opinion against slavery, the author cited Abraham Lincoln’s comment to Stowe that she was “the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.”

Incorrect. The answer is a. To support his argument that Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book Uncle Tom’s Cabin helped to turn northern public opinion against slavery, the author cited Abraham Lincoln’s comment to Stowe that she was “the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.”

Correct. The answer is b. According to the author, the transcontinental railroad, which required the acquisition of new land and the determination of its status as free territory or slave territory, opened new sectional hostilities in Congress in the 1850s.

Incorrect. The answer is b. According to the author, the transcontinental railroad, which required the acquisition of new land and the determination of its status as free territory or slave territory, opened new sectional hostilities in Congress in the 1850s.

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