Blue
Harriet Beecher Stowe is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin (True or False)
True
What region support slavery and what region was against slavery?
North- against Slavery
When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, he joked around with her and said _______
"So your little woman that started this Great War"
The man who argued that he should be a free person since he was living in a free state
Dred Scott
What is Mr. Benton's favorite superhero?
Batman
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a book which depicted the corruption within the U.S. government during the Civil War (True or False)
False
The Missouri Compromise addressed the issue of slavery and the balance of power in Congress by admitting _________ as a free state and Missouri as a slave state
Maine
Why did Kansas gain the nickname “Bleeding Kansas?
Kansas has pro and anti-slavery forces who violently clashed with one another
The Supreme court ruled in favor or against the man who argued that he should be free since he lived in a free state
The Supreme Court ruled against him
John Brown was attempting to seize weapons form the federal arsenal in order to give them to who so that they would do what?
Slaves and have them fight their oppressors/slave owners
The Mexican American War caused what region of new territories to be added to the United States?
Western Territories
Explain the Fugitive Slave Act
The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. Federal officials must pay a fine if they let a slave escape .
What did Pro-slavery Congressmen Prestyn Brooks use as a weapon to hit Senator Charles Sumner?
A cane
The Supreme Court considered the man a citizen but could not become free because his father was a slave (True or False)
False, The Supreme court ruled that enslaved people were not citizens and therefore had no right to sue in federal court
What happened to John Brown and his followers?
They were executed
List 3 states that were added after the Mexican- American War
New Mexico, Utah, California, Arizona, Nevada
What is Popular Sovereignty?
What type of speech did Senator Charles Sumner give to upset Congressment Prestyn Brooks before he resorted to violence.
Anti-slavery speech which called for an to the evil system of slavery
Name two abolitionist
Fredrick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, John Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe,
What year did Abraham Lincoln become president?
1860
What is the term used to describe the belief that Americans were divinely destined to settle the entire continent of North America
Manifest Destiny
A person who wants to ABOLISH slavery is called an __________
(You must pronounce the word correctly)
Abolitionist
The conflict in Kansas, known as "____________," resulted in violence and bloodshed as settlers from both the North and the South fought to control the territory's outcome
"Bleeding Kansas"
What was John Brown trying to seize when he raided the federal arsenal in Harper Ferry's, Virginia?
Weapons
What is Sectionalism?
the belief that a person’s region was superior to other sections of the country.