Ch13 AMH

Antebellum means "_____ the war".

• during
• before
• after
• around

Who was the vice president of the Confederacy?

• Alexander Stephens
• Jefferson Davis
• Stephen Douglas
• James Buchanan

Who was the chief justice in the Dred Scott decision?

• Abraham Lincoln
• John Brown
• Jefferson Davis
• Roger B. Taney

Who was the president of the Confederacy?

• Alexander Stephens
• Jefferson Davis
• Stephen Douglas
• James Buchanan

Who was elected president in 1856 and did not act to stop secession?

• Alexander Stephens
• Abraham Lincoln
• James Buchanan
• Jefferson Davis

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Dred Scott
• John Brown
• Frederick Douglass

Who started an abolitionist newspaper after escaping slavery?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Dred Scott
• Harriet Tubman
• Frederick Douglass

Who helped others escape slavery on the Underground Railroad?

• Harriet Tubman
• Frederick Douglass
• John Brown
• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Who was elected president of the U.S. in 1860?

• Alexander Stephens
• Abraham Lincoln
• Jefferson Davis
• James Buchanan

Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Roger B. Taney
• James Buchanan
• Stephen Douglas
• Abraham Lincoln