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US History Mid-term
Pre Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abraham Lincoln | was the 16th president of the united states of america he was a republican |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | was an American author and abolitionist, whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery |
| John Brown | He tried to incite a slave rebellion but was caught |
| Roger Taney | was the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1836 to 1864 |
| Fugitive Slave Act | A law passed as a part of the compromise of 1850 which provided southern slaveholders with leagal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states |
| dred scott | was a slave who sued unsuccessfully for his freedom in the famous Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857 |