11. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 11: Debating Abolition

**Quiz for Document 11.4: Liberty Party Platform (1844)**

Quiz for Document 11.4: Liberty Party Platform (1844)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. In its 1844 platform, the Liberty Party presented itself as the party

of the North.

that would work for women’s right to vote.

that represented the ideals of 1776.

of radical abolitionists.

2. The Liberty Party differed from the radical abolitionists in that it

accepted the validity of the U.S. Constitution.

rejected the idea that slavery was a moral wrong.

rejected the idea that religion had a role to play in ending slavery.

accepted the possibility that slave owners could be reformed.

3. Adherents of the Liberty Party took the position that voting was

useless for creating true political change.

potentially effective but highly corrupt.

a moral and religious duty.

the only way to affect significant political change in the United States.

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