APUSH Unit 8

Which of the following was the least common form of resistance to white authority by slaves?

• running away
• slow work
• armed insurrection
• faking illness

Senator who argued for following God's "Higher Law" as a solution to slavery issues

• Henry Clay
• Daniel Webster
• Stephen Douglas
• William Seward

Most southerners during the antebellum period were

• subsistence farmers
• mountain whites
• planter elite
• slaves

This 3rd Party formed to bolster the cause of abolitionist in the country and probably cost Henry Clay the presidency in 1844

• Liberty Party
• Free Soil Party
• Know Nothing Party
• Republican Party

The Ostend Manifesto dealt with

• Cuba
• Canada
• Mexico
• Russia

Which was not an argument used to justify slavery?

• Benefited the national economy
• Historical and biblical reference
• Slaves were granted freedom once the became too old to work
• Provided family like care for slaves

The Lane Rebels were led by

• William Lloyd Garrison
• Theodore Weld
• Charles Grandison Finney
• Lewis Cass

The Treaty of Kanagawa opened up relations between America and

• China
• Philippines
• Hong Kong
• Japan

He gave the famous Seventh of March was a speech that argued slavery should be defined by geography not legislation.

• Henry Clay
• John Calhoun
• Martin VanBuren
• Daniel Webster

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Harriet Tubman
• Sojourner Truth
• Angelina Grimke