Stokes US Midterm Review

The novel Uncle Tom’s cabin was…

• Banned in the North and sold out in the South
• Sold out in the North and banned in the South
• North and south both loved it
• North and South both hated it

Who was the anti-slavery crusader, who wanted to start a war to end slavery?

• John Green
• John Brown
• Robert Taney
• Dred Scott

Who believed his time in free territory made him free, and that he should not be brought back into slavery?

• John Brown
• Frederick Douglass
• Dred Scott
• David Walker

Charles Sumner was beaten nearly to death by

• Preston Brooks
• Abraham Lincoln
• John Brown
• William Lloyd Garrison

The American Colonization Society 

• created a new country in Africa.
• wanted to help create equality in America.
• wanted to end slavery.
• believed in colonizing African Americans to South America.

Popular Sovereignty can best be defined as

• “The rule of the people”
• A king makes all decisions
• A small group of people make the decisions
• Each state follows the Federal government's decision.

The act of secession is best described as

• a successful revolt.
• formally withdrawing.
• adding states to the Union.
• ending slavery.

Yorktown was the location of which major battle?

• The first battle of the Revolutionary war (1775
• The Battle of Bunker Hill
• The Battle of Lexington and Concord
• The last battle of the Revolutionary war (1781)

All of these are part of the Constitution EXCEPT

• The Preamble
• The Articles
• The Founding Fathers Agreement 
• The Amendments

The branch that enforces the laws is which of the following?

• executive
• legislative
• judicial
• congress