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Quiz for Document P5-4: Abraham Lincoln, Cooper Union Address (1860)

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Question 1

Abraham Lincoln, in his Cooper Union Address of 1860, offers the 1789 congressional and presidential enforcement of which of the following as proof of the constitutionality of federal regulation of slavery?A. The Alien and Sedition Acts
B. The Judiciary Act of 1789
C. The Northwest Ordinance
D. The Quebec Act

Question 2

Lincoln uses the example of the Louisiana Purchase Territorial Act of 1803 to establish precedent that Congress had constitutional authority toA. ban slavery in the territories.
B. create colonies for freed African Americans.
C. deport rebellious enslaved African Americans.
D. regulate slavery in the territories.

Question 3

Lincoln counters the South’s use of Washington’s Farewell Address to claim that the Republican Party was a “sectional party” by pointing out that Washington hadA. asserted the power of the Union over states’ rights.
B. freed his own enslaved people.
C. signed the enforcement of the Northwest Ordinance.
D. supported the New England Federalist Party.

Question 4

Lincoln argues that it is necessary to accept the continued existence of the institution of slavery in the states where it existed but to resist any efforts to expand slavery beyond its current borders. This argument represents the doctrine ofA. Abolition.
B. Free Soil.
C. Popular Sovereignty.
D. Reconstruction.