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burchfield96 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

All of the following statements are true about the short-term facts of John Brown's raid EXCEPT:

A) The raid took place in 1859.
B) Brown led 22 men in the attack.
C) The raiders attacked a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
D) The attack was a major military success.

Question 2

In the Freeport debate against Lincoln, Stephen Douglas argued that slavery

A) would not spread where it was unprofitable.
B) could not exist without favorable local legislation.
C) represented a moral and social evil.
D) should be protected in the territories.

Question 3

Abraham Lincoln believed that

A) there should be immediate abolition of slavery.
B) blacks were equal to whites and deserved equal rights.
C) slavery should be placed on a course of ultimate extinction.
D) separation of the races would have harmful long-term implications.

Question 4

The rejection of the Lecompton Constitution in 1858 meant that

A) its sponsors lost political prestige in the North.
B) slavery would be abolished in Kansas.
C) Kansas would enter the Union as a free state.
D) Kansas would remain a territory.

Question 5

The Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court

A) prompted a harsh criticism from President Buchanan.
B) ruled that Scott was not a citizen.
C) settled the political issue of slavery in the territories.
D) insulted and infuriated most southerners.