12. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 12: Sectional Politics and the Rise of the Republican Party

**Quiz for Document 12.1: Abraham Lincoln, On Slavery (1854)**

Quiz for Document 12.1: Abraham Lincoln, On Slavery (1854)

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

1. When Abraham Lincoln wrote about the North that “[t]here is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us,” he meant that

the North had no slavery.

laborers who worked hard could achieve a better status.

the North was relatively egalitarian and had no social classes.

Northerners did not relegate free blacks to menial occupations.

2. What did Lincoln suggest was necessary to inspire human beings and motivate them to work hard?

Adequate wages

Children to feed and nurture

Christianity

Hope

3. In Lincoln’s view, what is the core difference between free labor and slavery?

Free laborers’ working conditions are more humane and healthier than those of slaves.

Free laborers are not subject to humiliation or physical punishment, but slaves are.

Free labor offers wageworkers the promise of a better life, but slaves have no hope.

Wageworkers have access to education and the chance to establish permanent familial bonds.

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