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Question 1

“The American Scholar”

Answer 1

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Question 2

Seneca Falls Declaration

Answer 2

“Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” “all men and women are created equal.” Main issue was desire for suffrage

Question 3

Hudson River School

Answer 3

Frederic Church, Thomas Doughty, and Asher Durand. Painted unsettled Hudson Valley

Question 4

Minstrel Shows

Answer 4

Plays in which white actors mimicked and ridiculed blacks

Question 5

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 5

Written by Harriet Beacher Stowe. Brought to the North’s attention the wretchedness of slavery

Question 6

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 6

Douglass split Nebraska into two states: Kansas would be slave, Nebraska would be free

Question 7

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 7

Border “ruffians” (pro-slavery Missourians), Potowattame Massacre, John Brown

Question 8

Dred-Scott Decision

Answer 8

Slaves were property and could not file suits

Question 9

Yeomen Farmers

Answer 9

Small landowners (the majority of white families in the south) who farmed their own land and usually did not own slaves

Question 10

Hinton R. Helper

Answer 10

Book entitled ‘Impending Crisis of the South’ that stirred trouble. Attempted to prove that indirectly the non-slave holding whites were the ones who suffered the most from slavery; the book was banned in the South but countless copies were distributed as campaign material for republicans