American History - Unit 4 Lesson 4

1.arsenal 2.abolitionist 3.stereotype

1.a building for making and storing arms and military equipment 2.a person who wants to do away with some rule or custom 3.a fixed form or character; a conventional type

1.Dred Scott 2.Solomon Northrup 3.Chief Justice Roger B. Taney

1.sued for his freedom but lost 2.black freedman living in New York, captured and sold in the New Orleans slave market 3.effectively repealed the Missouri compromise

Which woman wrote a series of stories denouncing slavery and published them under the title Uncle Tom's Cabin ?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

In the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, which man's position is described below? 1. Claimed that a divided nation could not stand.2. His view was that the nation would eventually be either completely free or completely slave.3. Did not imply interference with the status of slavery but opposed the extension of slavery.

Abraham Lincoln

When Stephen Douglas explained that slavery could be excluded from a territory if the officials did not pass laws to protect it, his argument became known as the _____.

Freeport Doctrine

Who became a martyr after the Harper's Ferry incident in which he and his followers captured the Federal arsenal?

John Brown

In the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, which man's position is described below? 1. Advocated popular sovereignty. 2. Explained that slavery could only exist if the state legislature passed laws protecting slave property and could, therefore, curtail slavery without banning it outright.

Stephen Douglas

Many northerners became upset over the adoption of a strict fugitive slave law.

True