“I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.” –Abraham Lincoln

Question

The “thing” that Abraham Lincoln refers to in the quote above is most likely a reference to ____________.

Western Expansion

Secession

Political compromise

Human slavery

“I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed indeed for the moment… but this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.” –Thomas Jefferson
The Founding Father who provided the quote above, still alive as sectionalism began to savage the country, was most likely responding to the _________ when he made his statement.

The Mexican Cession

Missouri Compromise

Compromise of 1850

Kansas-Nebraska Act

"…beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect."
The statement above can be most accurately assumed to have arisen in conjunction with the opinions of _______________.

John Brown

Abraham Lincoln

Roger Taney

Henry Clay

"The great principle of self-government is at stake, and surely the people of this country are never going to decide that the principle upon which our whole republican system rests is vicious and wrong." –Stephen Douglas
The senator from Illinois was most likely making his statement in reference to which of the following principles that were set out by both the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Popular Sovereignty

Private Property Ownership

Human Slavery

Federalism

"Had there been one such man in the Congress of the United States …in 1860–'61 there would, I feel sure, have been no civil war."
The statement above, considered in the light of the various compromises enacted before the Civil War, can be best considered to be referring to ______________.

Dred Scott

Henry Clay

Abraham Lincoln

Roger Taney

B
D
B
C
A

Answer 1

B - no
D - no
B - no
C - no
A - no

Aren't you embarrassed??

Answer 2

nope :)

Answer 3

so whats the answer :/

Answer 4

1. Is Human Slavery
2. Missouri Compromise
3. Is The Supreme Court issuing the Dred Scott decision
4. Popular Sovereignty
5. Henry Clay
Hope this helps!