Staar Points 22

Question 0

Author of the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” an anti-slavery book which infuriated slave holders

Answer 0

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 1

Supreme Court case that rules slavery was Constitutional

Answer 1

Deed Scott v Sanford (1857)

Question 2

The idea that people should trust their individual conscience to lead them to do what is morally right, even if it means resisting laws that go against their beliefs

Answer 2

Transcendentalism

Question 3

Essayist,poet,philosopher who wrote the essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” , believed it was the duty of citizens to disobey unjust government policies

Answer 3

Henry David Thoreau

Question 4

Former slave who became a leader in the abolitionist movement

Answer 4

Frederick Douglass

Question 5

Fighting between the North and South over the issue of slavery and state’s rights

Answer 5

American Civil Was (1861-1865)