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Jkov05

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In the course of his campaign against Stephen Douglas in 1858, Abraham Lincoln declared all of the following except
 
  A) Congress had no constitutional authority to abolish slavery in the South.
  B) Social and political equality between blacks and whites was not desirable.
  C) The Dred Scott decision rendered popular sovereignty as thin as soup boiled from the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death.
  D) This nation cannot exist permanently half slave and half free.
  E) The best way to preserve the Union was to ensure that slavery was legal in all states, North and South.

Question 2

The Lecompton Constitution
 
  A) protected the property rights of slaveholders already living in Kansas and provided for a referendum on whether to admit more slaves.
  B) outlawed slavery in Kansas and petitioned Congress for statehood.
  C) rejected the Kansas-Nebraska Act and proclaimed the Dred Scott decision to be the state's new guideline on slavery.
  D) was adopted by a convention that was boycotted by proslavery forces who believed it would be rigged by free-soilers.
  E) repealed the Missouri Compromise and officially adopted the Kansas-Nebraska Act.



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Answer to Question 1

E

Answer to Question 2

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