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Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 14

Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 14

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Document 14-1: The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Document 14-2: The Antislavery Constitution

Document 14-3: The Proslavery Constitution

Document 14-4: Levi Coffin Describes Margaret Garner's Attempt to Escape Slavery

Document 14-5: Abolitionist Lydia Maria Child Defends John Brown and Attacks the Slave Power

Question

1. What did Abraham Lincoln think of southern whites prior to the Civil War? (See Document 14-1: The Kansas-Nebraska Act)

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.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is The answer is c. Lincoln explained that he held no prejudice against Southerners and that Northerners would act the same way, were they in their counterparts' shoes.

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2. What argument against the dissolution of the United States did Frederick Douglass make? (See Document 14-2: The Antislavery Constitution)

The northern textile industry needed southern cotton.

The principles of the union were more important than the issue of slavery.

The absence of the North would strengthen the power of southern slave owners over their victims.

Without a union, western expansion and access to land for freedom would be jeopardized.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is The answer is c. Frederick Douglass opposed dissolution of the United States because the absence of the North would strengthen the power of southern slave owners over their victims.

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3. According to Jefferson Davis, what principle lay at the heart of the U.S. Constitution? (See Document 14-3: The Proslavery Constitution)

The right to own slaves

The equality of rights between the states

The principle of white supremacy

The principle of liberty for all

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is The answer is b. Davis argued that the equality of rights between states was the most important principle in the U.S. Constitution.

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4. How did Levi Coffin describe Margaret Garner's respond to the verdict in her case? (See Document 14-4: Levi Coffin Describes Margaret Garner's Attempt to Escape Slavery)

She ranted and raved to make a scene as she was forced into the port for deportation.

She armed herself and died trying to fight her recapture.

She tried to the see the upside of the return to slaveryóa reunion with her children.

She jumped off her transport boat and tried to kill herself and her young child.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is The answer is d. Garner decided to jump off the boat to kill herself and her child. Garner was rescued, but the baby drowned.

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5. How did Lydia Maria Child characterize John Brown in her letter to Governor Wise of Virginia? (See Document 14-5: Abolitionist Lydia Maria Child Defends John Brown and Attacks the Slave Power)

As a criminal with a heart of gold

As a soldier through and through

As an activist with poor judgment

As a martyr to righteous principles

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is The answer is d. In her letter to Governor Wise of Virginia, Lydia Maria Child characterized John Brown as a martyr to righteous principles.

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6. Which of Jefferson Davis's valued constitutional principles did the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 violate? (See Document 14-4: Levi Coffin Describes Margaret Garner's Attempt to Escape Slavery and Document 14-3: The Proslavery Constitution)

The legal protection of slavery

The principle of states' rights

The separation of powers

The federal commerce clause

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is The answer is b. The federal role in the return of fugitive slaves violated the principle of states' rights for northern states.

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7. On which of the following did Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln disagree? (See Document 14-1: The Kansas-Nebraska Act and Document 14-2: The Antislavery Constitution)

The union had to be preserved.

Slavery was a monstrosity.

White Southerners were uncivilized.

Reform was preferable to revolution.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is The answer is c. Frederick Douglass did not share Abraham Lincoln's conviction that Southerners were no different than Northerners.