Weekly Quiz Review FAN

True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation immediately set all the slaves in the United States free?

• TRUE

• FALSE

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation declared that

• enslaved people in U.S. territories were free

• enslaved people throughout the world were free

• enslaved people in Confederate states were free

• enslaved people in Union states with slavery were free

Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist, which meant he wanted to abolish, to end ___________________

• voting
• slavery
• the Underground Railroad

Frederick Douglass wanted _______.

• to help slave children.
• money. 
• to be a land owner. 
• justice for slaves.

Frederick Douglass was a slave.

• True
• False

Anti-slavery activists founded the ______________ Party in the northern states in 1854, largely in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

• Republican

• Democratic

• Libertarian

Dred Scott was a slave who

• Sued for his freedom

• Led a slave revolt

• Wrote a popular slave narrative

• Served as an advisor to Lincoln

The Dred Scott opinion stated that

• Congress could not stop the spread of slavery.

• The black man had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.

• Slavery was for the benefit of the African-Americans.

• All of the above.

What was apparent following the presidential election of 1860?

• The nation was divided over slavery

• Lincoln was popular throughout the nation

• There was little support for abolitionists in the North

• Southern states were eager to abolish slavery

What did the election of 1860 demonstrate about the United States?

• Sectionalism dominated the nation

• The Southern states were strongest

• The Northern states wanted slavery

• There was widespread support for popular sovereignty