Frederick and Abraham (Flocabulary US History)

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

• ended

• changed

• united

• deprecated

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What does endure mean in the following Abraham Lincoln quote?

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

• speak ill

• divide

• carry on

• change

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

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

• ocean

• bolt of lighting

• ship

• house

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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

• united together

• deprecating agitation

• divided against itself

• demanding power

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

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.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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.

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

• all of the above

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

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

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CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

unrest, disturbance;

urging of public action for a political or social cause.

• agitation

• fortnight

• vigil

• hasten

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4