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1. Where was John Brown's raid on October 16, 1859?
Charleston
New York City
Osawatomie
Topeka
Harper's Ferry
2. What was John Brown's objective on the night of October 16, 1859?
The Underground Railroad
Raise attention to the abolitionist movement
Begin an "army of emancipation"
Campaign for Lincoln
Start a new nation
3. Who captured John Brown and his raiders?
Ulysses S. Grant
Stonewall Jackson
William Sherman
Robert E. Lee
George McClellan
4. Where did John Brown emerge as a significant, and violent, opponent to slavery?
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Nebraska
Populist Movement
Pontiac Rebellion
Articles of Confederacy
5. What 1854 act opened up territory that had been previously banned from becoming slave states?
Missouri Compromise
Kansas Nebraska Act
Missouri Kansas Act
Texas Act
Georgia Alabama Act
6. Julia Ward Howe set what song to the tune of the Civil War marching song "John Brown's Body"?
"Stars and Stripes Forever"
"God Bless America"
"Battle Hymn of the Republic"
"Star Spangled Banner"
"America the Beautiful"
7. What Supreme Court decision in 1857 dealt a blow to the abolitionist movement?
McCulloch v. Maryland
Gibbons v. Ogden
Cohens v. Virginia
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Martin v. Hunter's Lessee
8. What abolitionist novel galvanized the American public in the decade before the Civil War?
Last of the Mohicans
Little Women
The Red Badge of Courage
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Looking Backward
9. What famous American writer defended the principals of John Brown's action in an essay entitled "A Plea for Captain John Brown"?
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Herman Melville
Harriett Beecher Stowe
Edgar Allen Poe
10. Which amendment abolished slavery?
Twelfth
Thirteenth
Fourteenth
Fifteenth
Sixteenth
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