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Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
a) Dred Scott
b) Ernest Hemingway
c) Angelina Grimke
d) Harriet Beecher Stowe

Under the Missouri Compromise, ________________ entered as a slave state and _______________ entered as a free states.
a) Missouri; Maine
b) Missouri; Kansas
c) Maine; Missouri
d) Kansas; Nebraska

According to manifest destiny, why did Americans expand Westward?
a) To make allies with the Natives
b) The British wanted them to
c) It was God's will
d) To finish the railroads

Which land acquisition doubled the size of the US?
a) Gadsden Purchase
b) Texas Annexation
c) Oregon Territory
d) Louisiana Purchase

What was the most powerful social class in antebellum SC?
a) Planter Class
b) White Middle Class
c) Poor White Class
d) Free African Americans

Who led the US to victory during the Battle of New Orleans?
a) John C. Calhoun
b) Andrew Jackson
c) George Washington
d) Robert E. Lee

What was an impact of the cotton gin?
a) Fewer slaves were needed
b) Processing cotton took more time
c) More slaves were needed
d) The North started to produce cotton

What does 'antebellum' refer to?
a) The time before the Civil War
b) The time after the Civil War
c) The War of 1812
d) Changes in the status of women during the 1800s

What newly formed political party did Lincoln belong to?
a) Whig
b) Republican
c) Democrat
d) Federalist

What was the first state to secede from the Union?
a) Florida
b) North Carolina
c) South Carolina
d) Missouri

Who were the Grimke sisters?
a) Pro-slavery women from Charleston, SC
b) Supporters of John C. Calhoun
c) Abolitionists born in South Carolina
d) Women who helped invent the cotton gin

Which is TRUE of Dred Scott?
a) The Supreme Court said that he (and other slaves) were not citizens
b) Based on his court case, the Supreme Court said the MO Compromise was unconstitutional
c) His master took him into free territory
d) All of the above are true

Abraham Lincoln...
a) won the Election of 1860
b) was a member of the Republican Party
c) was voted in by the Northern states
d) All of the above are true.

What hero of the North tried to arm slaves by raiding a federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry, VA?
a) Andrew Jackson
b) Denmark Vesey
c) John Brown
d) Angelina Grimke

The Compromise of 1850
a) Admitted California as a free state
b) Got rid of the Fugitive Slave Act
c) Made Missouri a slave state
d) Ended popular sovereignty

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