House Divided Speech Quizzes
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around House Divided Speech? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. "Have we no tendency to the latter condition?" What is the "latter condition" Lincoln's referring to?
Slavery being banned in all states.
Slavery becoming legal in all states.
The United States becoming divided over the issue of slavery.
Arachnophobia.
Q. "…both Nebraska Bill and lawsuit were brought to a decision in the same month of May 1854." What lawsuit is Lincoln referring to?
Gibbons v. Ogden
Marbury v. Madison
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Steve Rogers v. Tony Stark
Q. Fill in the blank: "Under the Dred Scott decision, ________ squatted out of existence, tumbled down like temporary scaffolding."
"squatter sovereignty"
"popular sovereignty"
states' rights
that mansion we built in the Sims
Q. "Plainly enough, now, it was an exactly fitted niche for the Dred Scott decision to afterward come in and declare the perfect freedom of the people to be just no freedom at all." What document is Lincoln discussing here?
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution
The Monroe Doctrine
Pride and Prejudice
Q. Fill in the blanks: "We shall lie down pleasantly dreaming that the people of _______ are on the verge of making their State free; and we shall awake to the reality, instead, that the Supreme Court has made ______ a slave State."
Missouri; Illinois
Illinois; Maryland
Texas; California
Hawaii; Alaska