Assignment 5 the division of the people

Arsenal

A buliding for making and storing arms and military equipment

Stereotype

A fixed form or character; a conventional type

Abolitionist

A person who wants to do away with some rule or custom

In the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, which mans position is described as 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 interface with the status of slavery but opposed the extension of slavery.

Abraham Lincoln

Solomon Northup

Black freedma living in New York, captured and sold in the New Orleans slave market

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney

Effectively repealed the Missouri compromise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

Who became a martyr after the Harpers ferry incident in which he and his followers captured the Federal arsenal?

John Brown

In the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, which mans position is described as 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

Dred Scott

Sued for his freedom but lost

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

True