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Antebellum means "_____ the war".

• during

• before

• after

• around

Who was the vice president of the Confederacy? 

• Alexander Stephens

• Jefferson Davis

• Stephen Douglas

• James Buchanan

Who was the chief justice in the Dred Scott decision?

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown

• Jefferson Davis

• Roger B. Taney

Who was the president of the Confederacy?

• Alexander Stephens

• Jefferson Davis

• Stephen Douglas

• James Buchanan

Who was elected president in 1856 and did not act to stop secession?

• Alexander Stephens

• Abraham Lincoln

• James Buchanan

• Jefferson Davis

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Dred Scott

• John Brown

• Frederick Douglass

Who started an abolitionist newspaper after escaping slavery?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Dred Scott

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

Who helped others escape slavery on the Underground Railroad?

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

• John Brown

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Who was elected president of the U.S. in 1860?

• Alexander Stephens

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• James Buchanan

Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Roger B. Taney

• James Buchanan

• Stephen Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln