Antebellum mid point

Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which caused the growth of the abolition movement? 

• Abraham Lincoln
• Harriett Beecher Stowe 
• Frederick Douglass
• William Lloyd Garrison 

Name of the slave who sued because he believed he should be free because he once lived in a free state. 

• Frederick Douglass 
• Nat Turner 
• Dred Scott 
• George Washington Carver

What was the Missouri Compromise? 

• Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine a free state
• Missouri entered as a free state and slavery was outlawed in the the territories
• Missouri entered as a slave state and California a free state
• Missouri entered as a free state

The Compromise that allowed slavery below the 36^o 30' N parallel was called the

• Minnesota Compromise
• Great Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri Compromise

An extreme loyalty to one's region or country is called

• partiality
• sectionalism
• common sense
• selfishness

______ was an effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

• It led to Lincoln being elected president
• It canceled the Missouri Compromise
• Kansas was allowed to enter the union as a slave state
• Upsetting the balance of power in the Senate

Requiring people to catch and return runaway slaves was called 

• seceding
• popular sovereignty
• the Kansas-Nebraska Act
• the Fugitive Slave Act

The Missouri Compromise split slave states and free states at what line?

• 36, 30
• 30, 30
• 30, 36
• 36, 33

What invention may have caused cotton production to spike like the graph chows?

• Tractors
• Development of new ways to grown cotton
• Cotton gin
• Railroads

What was Denmark Vesey best known for?

• Leading a slave revolt in Charleston
• Creating the cotton gin
• Peaceful protest 
• Creating a new set of laws