WorksheetsCh 14 Lesson 2: Challenges to Slavery
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
The Know-Nothings refused to call for the repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
True
False
In 1854, the Republican Party had almost had no support in the South.
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?
Abolitionist Part
Antislavery Party
Northern Party
Republican Party
What did Chief Justice Taney write in his opinion on the Dred Scott case?
Congress had no power to ban slavery.
Popular sovereignty.
The Missouri Compromise was legal.
Enslaved African Americans could move freely from state to state.
Douglas claimed that Lincoln
secretly supported Freeport Doctrine.
wanted African Americans to be fully equal to whites.
wanted the United States to abolish popular sovereignty.
wanted United States to return British rule.
Who led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Viginia?
Abraham Lincoln
Dred Scott
John Brown
Stephen A. Douglas
Lincoln was largely unknown before which election?
1856 presidental electioin
1858 congressional election
1860 congressional election
1860 presidential election
