CH 14 Lesson 2 Challenges to Slavery

In 1854, the Republican Party had almost no support in the South.

• True

• False

The Know-Nothings refused to call for the repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

• True

• False

Lincoln believed slavery was moral.

• True

• False

Dred Scott was an enslaved African American who sued for his freedom.

• True

• False

Pro-slavery groups considered John Brown a martyr.

• True

• False

Which party did the Antislavery Whigs, Democrats, and Free-Soilers join together to form?

• Northern Party

• Republican Party

• Antislavery Party

• Abolitionist Party

What did Chief Justice Taney write in his opinion on the Dred Scott case?

• Congress had no power to ban slavery.

• Popular sovereignty could continue.

• The Missouri Compromise was legal.

• Enslaved African Americans could move freely from state to state.

Douglas claimed that Lincoln

• secretly supported the Freeport Doctrine.

• wanted African Americans to be fully equal to whites.

• wanted the United States to abolish popular sovereignty.

• wanted the United States to return to British rule.

Who led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Dred Scott

• John Brown

• Stephen A. Douglas

Lincoln was largely unknown before which election?

• 1856 presidential election

• 1858 congressional election

• 1860 congressional election

• 1860 presidential election