Who raided Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in 1859 to start a slave uprising, was capture and executed for treason, and symbolize a martyr for abolitionism by the North?

John Brown’s first claim to the fame was killing slave owners on Potawatomie Creek, which sparks cries of ____________ in Congress.

Lincoln had a moderate plan to gradually incorporate the former Confederate states into the Union but was assassinated by ____________ on April 14, 1865.

The Biblical arguments used by Southerners to protect slavery were that slaves were descendants of the Curse of Ham, Paul preached for it, Jesus never preached against it, and Hebrews owned them.

____________ founded the colony of ____________ in 1585, but it failed when colonists disappeared.

The ____________ was the first and most important free-Black regiment formed during the Civil War.

Who represented the spokesman of the South, dying in the 1850s and leaving a vacuum of power, which led to the emergence of the Fire Eaters?

One task of the prosecution in a death penalty case is to establish that the sentence should be death because the aggravating causes in the case exceed any potential circumstantial evidence.

For states that authorize multiple methods of execution, the method is generally selected by the victim’s family

According to the text, admitting guilt is a typical response of an incarcerated person on death row.