Chapter 12

Quiz for Document 12-2: John L. Magee, Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler (1856)

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Question 1

The background images of lynching and violence are intended to relate to which of the following Free Soiler concerns about the Democratic Party’s platform?A. Concerns over possible civil disorder
B. Pro-slavery violence in Kansas
C. Slavery’s violent nature
D. Violence in Southern culture

Question 2

What is the significance of including Central America and Cuba with Kansas as planks of the Democratic Party platform?A. Equating Southern slavery with Spanish slavery
B. Identifying Democrats with Latin American leaders
C. Implying that Democrats supported Spanish monarchy
D. Reminding voters of Southern calls for expanding slave territory into Latin America

Question 3

To Free Soil and anti-slavery voters, the figure of Senator Stephen A. Douglas (far left of image) in this context representsA. authorship of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the spread of popular sovereignty.
B. creation of new free territories in Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado.
C. democratic principles of freedom and liberty.
D. slave-owning Southern politicians and wealthy planters.