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Quiz for Document 14–3: Jefferson Davis, Speech before the U.S. Senate, May 1860

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. According to Davis, what principle lay at the heart of the U.S. Constitution?

The right to own slaves

The equality of rights between the states

The principle of white supremacy

The principle of liberty for all

2. How did Davis want the government to deal with the territories?

He wanted it to protect people’s rights of property in the territories.

He thought the government should stop admitting new territories until the slavery issue was resolved.

He argued that slavery should be allowed in all new territories.

He did not care about slavery in the territories but wanted it to remain legal in the southern states.

3. According to Davis, what was the most important goal of the southern states?

Making slavery legal in all states

Government acceptance of “squatter sovereignty” in the territories

That the Constitution be “fairly and equally administered”

The repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act