12. Document Project 12: Visions of John Brown

Quiz for Document 12.8 A Southern Paper Reacts to Brown’s Execution, December 3, 1859

Quiz for Document 12.8: A Southern Paper Reacts to Brown’s Execution, December 3, 1859

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. To what are the authors referring as northern “fanaticism”?

Quakerism

Slavery

Abolition

Republicanism

2. Why would Southerners mention “the godly city of Boston, built up and sustained by the products of negro slave labor . . . ”?

To criticize slave traders

To point out northern hypocrisy

To condemn the slave trade out of Boston

To inflate Boston’s historical importance

3. What does the article reveal about the southern views on abolition in the mid-1800s?

The South was increasingly anti-slavery.

The South wanted the north to re-introduce slavery.

The South defended their institution against outside agitators.

The South already endorsed separation from the North.

4. What does the author claim that northerners would want to do with John Brown’s gallows and execution rope?

Sell pieces for money.

Create a shrine to Brown.

Hang slave owners with it.

Put it in a museum.

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