Two Miserable Presidents test #1 How to Rip a Country Apart

The inventor of the Cotton Gin. "Gin" was short for engine.

• Frederick Douglas

• Eli Whitney

• Preston Brooks

• Henry Clay

A lawyer and former Congressman who said that slavery was wrong. He compared a government that allowed slavery to despotism.

• Henry Foote

• Henry Clay

• Abraham Lincoln

• Charles Sumner

Anti-slavery settlers started their own government in Kansas. In May of 1856, the pro-stlavery army attacked the settlers' government in ____________________________.

• St. Louis, Missouri

• Washington, DC

• Charleston, South Carolina

• Lawrence, Kansas

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The author hoped that the novel would help people see the pain and injustice of slavery.

• Andrew Butler

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Jefferson Davis

• Preston Brooks

Mississippi senator who said the balance of power between the North and South was about to be destroyed.

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Daniel Webster

• Henry Clay

A Senator who had a speech impediment due to a stroke. He was mocked by Charles Sumner.

• Andrew Butler

• William Seward

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

A Senator from New York, who said slavery would end whether the South liked it or not.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Jefferson Davis

• Henry Clay

• William Seward

He was angry about people coming in to Kansas to vote illegally. He personally attacked South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler for supporting slavery.

• William Seward

• Charles Sumner

• Eli Whitney

• Jefferson Davis

Suggested the compromise that became the Fugitive Slave Act

• William Seward

• Jefferson Davis

• Henry Clay

• Eli Whitney

Andrew Butler's cousin who physically attacked Sumner with a cane for making fun of Andrew

• Preston Brooks

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• James Buchanan

• Henry Clay