12. Document Project 12: Visions of John Brown

**Quiz for Document 12.5 State Register (Springfield, Illinois), The Irrepressible Conflict, 1859**

Quiz for Document 12.5: State Register (Springfield, Illinois), The Irrepressible Conflict, 1859

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What is the main argument of the editorial printed in the State Register?

The Republican Party has fanned the flames of the abolitionist movement, encouraging violence and open rebellion.

The Republican Party is guilty of supporting the enslavement and torture of human beings for far too long.

John Brown was a pawn of the Democratic Party to incite warfare between the North and the South.

The conflict between the North and South will prove to be an “irrepressible conflict” after John Brown’s raid.

2. To what event is the author referring when he mentions the “Kansas crew of black republican marauders . . . ”?

The 49ers Migration

Indian Resettlement in Kansas

The Nicodemus Colony

Bloody Kansas conflicts

3. What piece of this report differs dramatically from the reality of what happened at Harper’s Ferry?

The location of the raid

The numbers involved

The influence of republican ideas

The abolitionist motives

4. What does the article use as an aside to justify slavery?

Need for agricultural labor source

The fact that the founding fathers owned slaves

The profitability of the slave system

The Biblical references to slavery

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