Frederick and Abraham (Flocabulary US History)

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

• divide

• carry on

• change

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

• ocean

• bolt of lighting

• 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.

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.

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

• all of the above

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

unrest, disturbance;

urging of public action for a political or social cause.

• agitation

• fortnight

• vigil

• hasten