14.2 "Challenges to Slavery" Quizizz Lesson

Multiple Choice

What did the birth of the Republican Party in 1854 suggest about the issue of slavery?

• What did the birth of the Republican Party in 1854 suggest about the issue of slavery?

• Slavery was an important issue only in certain states.

• Slavery was an important enough issue that northern Democrats helped form the Republican Party.

• Slavery was not important enough to increase voter turnout.

Multiple Choice

Which party did the Antislavery Whigs, Democrats, and Free-Soilers join together to form?

• Abolitionist Party

• Antislavery Party

• Northern Party

• Republican Party

Multiple Choice

Dred Scott was an enslaved African American who sued for his freedom.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

What did Chief Justice Taney write in his opinion on the Dred Scott case?

• Congress had no power to ban slavery.

• Popular sovereignty could continue.

• The Missouri Compromise was legal.

• Enslaved African Americans could move freely from state to state.

Multiple Choice

Lincoln was largely unknown before which election?

• 1856 presidential election

• 1858 congressional election

• 1860 congressional election

• 1860 presidential election

Drag and Drop

In the second meeting, at Freeport, Illinois, ​

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forced from Douglas an answer that perhaps changed the course of American history. Lincoln asked Douglas if the people of a territory could exclude slavery before the formation of a state constitution. According to Douglas’s belief in ​

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sovereignty, the answer should be “yes.” According to the Dred Scott decision, which declared that ​

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had no power to exclude slavery from a territory, the answer should be “no.” If Douglas answered “yes,” he would displease the South. If he said “no,” he would lose support in the ​

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. Douglas answered—as Lincoln expected—that no matter what the court might do “slavery cannot exist. . .anywhere unless it is supported by local police regulations” and that a territory could keep out ​

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by “unfriendly legislation.” The disappointed South called this statement the “Freeport Doctrine.”

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Multiple Choice

Douglas claimed that Lincoln

• secretly supported the Freeport Doctrine.

• wanted African Americans to be fully equal to whites.

• wanted the United States to abolish popular sovereignty.

• wanted the United States to return enslaved workers to Africa.

Multiple Choice

Pro-slavery groups considered John Brown a martyr.

• true

• false

Use the preceding slides and/or pgs. 501 - 506 to help you answer the following questions.

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​14.2

Challenges to Slavery

Multiple Choice

In the Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford, Scott believed he should be a free man, because ____.

• Sandford had promised to free him when Sandford died

• he had the money to purchase his freedom

• he was born free

• he had lived in free territories

Multiple Choice

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Scott v. Sandford 

• was a popular decision throughout the nation.

• received almost no support in the South.

• outraged opponents of slavery. 

• was overturned by presidential veto.

Multiple Choice

In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln affirmed that the Republican Party believed ___.

• slavery was wrong in all cases

• popular sovereignty should decide the status of slavery in each state

• slavery should be banned in the new territories

• Congress should decide the status of slavery in the whole country

Multiple Choice

What was an important outcome of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

• Lincoln won the Illinois Senate election in 1858.

• Lincoln developed a great reputation throughout the nation.

• Douglas convinced Illinois Republicans to support slavery in western territories.

• Douglas supported Lincoln as a presidential candidate in 1860.

Multiple Choice

What was John Brown’s goal for his raid on the Harper’s Ferry arsenal?

• to occupy the arsenal until the federal government freed all enslaved people

• to arm enslaved African Americans to start a revolt against slaveholders

• to move the weapons to the North to prepare for a civil war

• to arm slaveholders to defend their property