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Ch 14 Lesson 2: Challenges to Slavery

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

True

b)

False

2.

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

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Lincoln believed slavery was moral.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

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

a)

True

b)

False

5.

PRO-slavery groups considered John Brown a martyr.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

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

a)

Abolitionist Part

b)

Antislavery Party

c)

Northern Party

d)

Republican Party

7.

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

a)

Congress had no power to ban slavery.

b)

Popular sovereignty.

c)

The Missouri Compromise was legal.

d)

Enslaved African Americans could move freely from state to state.

8.

Douglas claimed that Lincoln

a)

secretly supported Freeport Doctrine.

b)

wanted African Americans to be fully equal to whites.

c)

wanted the United States to abolish popular sovereignty.

d)

wanted United States to return British rule.

9.

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

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Dred Scott

c)

John Brown

d)

Stephen A. Douglas

10.

Lincoln was largely unknown before which election?

a)

1856 presidental electioin

b)

1858 congressional election

c)

1860 congressional election

d)

1860 presidential election