T9S3 "Slavery"

1. How was the Republican party formed?

• Whig party renamed themselves the Republican Party

• antislavery people of the Whig party and the Democratic party joined the Free-Soilers party

• a group of abolitionists named themselves the Republican party

• The Republican party has always existed

1. How many political parties existed at this point? Name all.

• Republican party

• The Whig party

• Democratic party

• The American party

Which candidate and which political party won the 1856 presidential election.

• Fillmore, (American party)

• Fremont (Republican party)

• Buchanan (Democratic party}

1. What was Dred Scott arguing for in the 1830s?

• He should be a free slave since he was brought to a free state

• He bought his way out of slavery

• There was no paperwork proof that he was a slave

• He always lived in a free state, yet he was a slave

1. What made Dred Scott’s case controversial?

• Dredd Scott was a slave

• Dred Scott was a free slave

• it questioned about slavery itself

1. In addition to Dred Scott’s case, what else did the Supreme Court declare? [choose 3[

• Slavery was illegal

• The Missouri Compromise was unconstituional

• popular sovereignty was illegal

• The Constitution protected slavery and owners' property

1. What was Abraham Lincoln’s stance towards slavery?

• voters could exclude slavery by refusing to lass laws that protected the rights of slaveholders

• African American should enjoy rights and freedom

• He did not properly answer the question

• Slavery should continue to exist

1. What was Stephen A. Douglas’s stance on popular sovereignty?

• voters could exclude slavery by refusing to lass laws that protected the rights of slaveholders

• African American should enjoy rights and freedom

• He did not properly answer the question

• Slavery should continue to exist

1. What did John Brown do that led him to execution?

• He tried to free a group of slaves

• he tried to arm enslaved African Americans to start a revolution

• He was giving a speech about how slavery was wrong

• He was part of the Underground Railroad