Benchmark Unit 1 Week 2 Vocabulary quiz

Mrs. Stowe's book _________ many details about the lives of enslaved people.

• contained
• secession

• nation
• replied

Both the President and Mrs. Stowe hoped for a better _________ for the country.

• future
• reason
• nation
• devoted

In 1862, many former slaves celebrated their _________.

• freedom
• reason
• devoted
• contained

Mrs. Stowe's book gave many people a _________ to work against slavery.

• reason
• replied
• appealed

• rights

Citizens should know what their _________ and responsibilities are.

• rights
• contained
• future
• nation

Many _________ readers took Mrs. Stowe's words as a call to action.

• devoted
• freedom
• nation
• appealed

The issue of slavery divided the _________.

• nation
• freedom
• secession

• future

Mrs. Stowe _________ to the President, "I only hoped to speak the truth."

• replied
• reason
• devoted
• future

Many Southern leaders were threatening __________ - the splitting off of slave states from the Union.

• secession
• appealed
• devoted
• future

Mrs. Emerson _________  the decision, asking that the case be heard again in a higher court.

• appealed
• secession
• devoted
• replied