Frederick Douglas and Abe Lincoln Flocab

Abraham Lincoln said, "I do not expect the Union to be dissolved," or ________.

• ended

• changed

• united

• deprecated

What does concedes mean in the following Frederick Douglass quote?

"Power concedes nothing without a demand"

• speaks ill of

• gives in to

• carry on

• claim

What does endure mean in the following Abraham Lincoln quote?

"I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free."

• speak ill of

• divide

• carry on

• change

In his famous speech, Lincoln compared the Union to a(n) ________.

• ocean

• bolt of lightening

• ship

• house

According to Lincoln, the nation cannot stand when it's ________.

• united together

• deprecating agitation

• divided against itself

• demanding power

Why did many slave owners prohibit their slaves from learning to read and write?

• Slave owners feared their slaves would write books and make money.

• Slave owners feared their slaves would use reading and writing skills to escape oppression.

• Slave owners thought slaves would run for Senate seats if they knew how to read and write.

• Slave owners did not want to spend money buying reading materials for slaves.

In the 1850s, the ________ party was mostly proslavery, and the ________ party was mostly antislavery.

• Democratic, Republican

• Republican, Democratic

• Democratic, Southern

• Northern, Republican

What did Lincoln mean when he said that "the nation will become all one thing or all the other"?

• Everyone in the nation will either move to the North or to the South.

• Either everyone in the nation will become slaves, or everyone will become free.

• All slaves will live either in the North or in the South.

• Slavery will either become legal in both the North and South or be abolished in both the North and South.

Which of the following is a reason that the nation was divided in the 1800s?

• Some people in the North were morally against slavery.

• Slavery supported the Southern economy and Southern society.

• All choices are correct

• Northern businesses did not like competing with slave labor in the South.

Frederick Douglass was ________.

• born a slave and went on to become a leading abolitionist

• born free and went on to become a leading abolitionist

• born a slave and never learned to read or write

• born free and taught himself to read and write