Author Question: The free soil ideology included A. a call to end slavery in the United States as soon as ... (Read 82 times)

nautica902 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

In the 1858 Abraham LincolnStephen Douglas debates,

A. Douglas asserted that slavery was legal but not immoral.

B. the two men agreed that a civil war over slavery was inevitable.

C. Lincoln made his case so strongly that he was elected to the Senate.

D. Lincoln called for a full and immediate abolition of slavery.

E. Lincoln argued slavery was a threat to the growth of white free labor.

Question 2

The Supreme Court ruling in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) held that

A. states were not allowed to abolish slavery within their borders.

B. the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

C. Scott must be freed under federal law.

D. the freedom of a slave could not be purchased by a black person.

E. slaves were property unless they moved to a free state.

Question 3

Lecompton (Kansas) constitution was

A. antislavery.

B. approved and later reaffirmed by Kansas voters.

C. written by Stephen Douglas.

D. twice rejected by a majority of Kansas voters.

E. rejected, then approved by Kansas voters.

Question 4

James Buchanan

A. opposed the admission of Kansas as a slave state.

B. refused to enforce the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision.

C. weakly opposed the Dred Scott decision.

D. pressured Congress to admit Kansas under the Lecompton constitution.

E. None of these answers is correct.

Question 5

The free soil ideology included

A. a call to end slavery in the United States as soon as possible.

B. the argument that slavery was tremendously harmful to American blacks.

C. an argument for black male suffrage.

D. the use of military force to suppress slavery.

E. opposition to the expansion of slavery.