Uncle Tom's Cabin, Raid on Harpers Ferry, and States' Rights

A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that described the cruelty of slavery.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Gone with the Wind

• Across the Lines

• Gettysburg

Which two events helped to divide the North and South before the Civil War?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Abolitionists Party

• The raid at Haper's Ferry

• Both A and C

How did the North feel about Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Less informed about the conditions of slavery

• More informed about the conditions of slavery

• More informed about the raid at Harpers Ferry

• Less informed about the raid at Harpers Ferry

How did the people in the SOUTH view the raid on Harper's Ferry?

• As a meaningless event

• As a heroic event

• As an attack on their way of life

• Both B and C

President Lincoln was the only candidate who

• Was supportive of slavery

• Was neither supportive nor against slavery

• Was against slavery

The South grew more afraid that the government would end slavery. South Carolina and many other southern states left the United States. They formed a new organization called

• the Confederate States of America

• The Northern States

• The Southern States

War between people of the same country

• secede

• state's rights

• civil war

• slavery

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglas, and John Brown are examples of

• Supreme Court Justices

• abolitionists

• governors in slave states

• candidates in the election of 1860

Who organized and led the raid at Harper's Ferry?

• Uncle Tom

• Jefferson Douglass

• John Brown

• Abraham Lincoln

What did many Southerners fear when Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States?

• Losing their land

• Losing slavery

• Losing their families

• Losing their crops