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Paulson 7 Vocabulary September 10-14, 2018

Quiz by BJ Paulson

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  • Q1
    Harriet Beecher Stowe's widely read novel that dramatized the horrors of slavery. It heightened Northern support for abolition and escalated the sectional conflict.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
    30s
  • Q2
    Willfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it.
    cruel
    30s
  • Q3
    The killing or wounding of people, usually during fighting or a war.
    bloodshed
    30s
  • Q4
    To find fault with.
    criticize
    30s
  • Q5
    A particular area of land.
    territory
    30s
  • Q6
    Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)
    John Brown
    30s
  • Q7
    To show approval.
    applaud
    30s
  • Q8
    A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.
    Dred Scott Decision
    30s
  • Q9
    John Brown plans to start a slave uprising, so he steals weapons at Harper's Ferry and is stopped by U.S. Marines where he is captured.
    Harper's Ferry Raid
    30s
  • Q10
    16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.
    Abraham Lincoln
    30s
  • Q11
    The crime of betraying one's country.
    treason
    30s
  • Q12
    The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.
    Confederate States of America
    30s
  • Q13
    Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force.
    Robert E. Lee
    30s
  • Q14
    A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy.
    blockade
    30s
  • Q15
    A slave state that remained in the Union during the Civil War (Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Kentucky, and West Virginia)
    border state
    30s

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