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Quiz for Document 14–1: Abraham Lincoln, Speech in Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What did Lincoln think of southern whites prior to the Civil War?

Southern whites were morally inferior to Northerners.

The southern climate had rendered whites there lazy.

Lincoln professed that they were just like northern whites.

He thought they should emigrate rather than take the country into war.

2. What were the terms of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

It supported and strengthened the Missouri Compromise.

It made slavery legal in Kansas but not in Nebraska as a way to appease both sides of the slavery issue.

It set the borders of Nebraska and Kansas and made slavery legal in both states.

It set up a territorial government for Nebraska and Kansas and allowed settlers to decide whether to have slaves.

3. According to Lincoln, what were the underlying motives for the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

A desire for the immediate and total abolition of slavery

Opposition to intervention by the federal government

An attempt to keep Lincoln from becoming president

A zeal for spreading slavery

4. Which of the following was a solution Lincoln proposed for dealing with slavery?

A system of gradual emancipation

More negotiations between abolitionists and slaveholders

Education in schools about the evils of slavery

Compensation for former slaves