Ch 14.2-3 PRACTICE QUIZ

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

• Republican

• Democratic

• Libertarian

What best describes Dred Scott ?

• slave who sued for his freedom

• slaveowner who sued for the return of a fugitive slave

• Georgia politician trying to ban slavery

• Supreme Court judge making a ruling on the spread of slavery

The Dred Scott decision...

• angered southerners, satisfied northerners.

• satisfied southerners, angered northerners.

• promoted the abolitionist movement.

• resulted in a compromise between the North & South.

What did Dred Scott argue in the Scott v. Sandford case?

• He was free because he had lived in free states

• He was free because he was now a slaveholder

• He should not have been captured because he was a fugitive

• He should get his property back through due process

Abraham Lincoln ran against and debated this "little giant" for a seat in the Senate. 

• Stephen Fuller Austin
• Stephen Curry
• Stephen Douglas
• Frederick Douglass

The idea that the country could not continue being half and half free was the message of Lincoln's ...

• 1860 State of the Union Address
• "House-Divided Speech"
• Gettysburg Address
• Second Inaugural Address

This guy attempted to start a slave revolt....it didn't work.

• Abraham Lincoln
• John Bell 
• John Breckenridge
• John Brown

What was the ultimate fate of John Brown?

• He was hanged.
• He was acquitted because he was found insane.
• He single handedly ended slavery in the US.
• He was killed by lethal injection.

What caused Southern States to secede from the Union?

• The Election of Lincoln in 1860
• The Dred Scott Decision
• Harper's Ferry
• Bleeding Kansas

What does popular sovereignty mean when deciding slavery?

• The whole country votes to decide if slave or free

• The people living in the territory vote to decide if slave or free