Preparing for War and various attitudes

which of these is not true about the book Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Translated into more than 20 languages

• convinced many northerners to join the abolitionist cause

• Convinced many northerners to uphold the stricter fugitive slave law

• Kept France and England out of the American Civil War

John Brown and his followers hacked to death 5 pro-slaveryites at

• Pottawatomie Creek

• Shawnee Mission

• Lawrence

This congressman violently beat another congressman for badmouthing his cousin who was a pro slavery supporter

• Charles Sumner

• Andrew Butler

• Andrew Johnson

• Preston Brooks

"Fire-eaters" made it know that if a Democrat was elected in the 1856 election they would immediately secede from the union

• true

• false

which of these is not true of the supreme court ruling in the Dredd Scott decision

• Slaves are not citizens

• slaves can not sue

• slaves cant be taken away with out due process

• the Missouri compromise is constitutional

in the 1860 election the Democrats are split which opens the door for Lincoln to win as a Republican

• true

• false

after Lincoln was elected how many states seceded from the union

• 10

• 11

• 12

• 13

85% of the early mill workers in the northern factories are...

• single young women

• older childless women

• young men ready to work

• African Americans

with the invention of the cotton gin the price of slaves

• increases significantly

• decreases significantly

• stays about the same

• increases slightly

the Erie canal led to a significant economic boom in the north and especially NY. What year was it opened

• 1825

• 1826

• 1827

• 1824