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English, Social Studies, History
5th -
7thgrade
Frederick and Abraham (Flocabulary US History)
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- 1. Multiple Choice
Abraham Lincoln said, "I do not expect the Union to be dissolved," or ________.
ended
changed
united
deprecated
- 2. Multiple Choice
What does concedes mean in the following Frederick Douglass quote?
"Power concedes nothing without a demand."
speaks ill of
gives in to
carry on
claim
- 3. Multiple Choice
What does endure mean in the following Abraham Lincoln quote?
"I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free."
speak ill
divide
carry on
change
- 4. Multiple Choice
In his famous speech, Lincoln compared the Union to a(n) ________.
ocean
bolt of lighting
ship
house
- 5. Multiple Choice
According to Lincoln, the nation cannot stand when it's ________.
united together
deprecating agitation
divided against itself
demanding power
- 6. Multiple Choice
Why did many slave owners prohibit their slaves from learning to read and write?
Slave owners feared their slaves would write books and make money.
Slave owners feared their slaves would use reading and writing skills to escape oppression.
Slave owners thought slaves would run for Senate seats if they knew how to read and write.
Slave owners did not want to spend money buying reading materials for slaves.
- 7. Multiple Choice
What did Lincoln mean when he said that "the nation will become all one thing or all the other"?
Everyone in the nation will either move to the North or to the South.
Either everyone in the nation will become slaves, or everyone will become free.
All slaves will live either in the North or in the South.
Slavery will either become legal in both the North and South or be abolished in both the North and South.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is a reason that the nation was divided in the 1800s?
Some people in the North were morally against slavery.
Slavery supported the Southern economy and Southern society.
Northern businesses did not like competing with slave labor in the South.
all of the above
- 9. Multiple Choice
Frederick Douglass was ________.
born a slave and went on to become a leading abolitionist
born free and went on to become a leading abolitionist
born a slave and never learned to read or write
born free and taught himself to read and write
- 10. Multiple Choice
unrest, disturbance;
urging of public action for a political or social cause.
agitation
fortnight
vigil
hasten
- 11. Multiple Choiceverb to stop or discontinue something or anothercorresponddiminishpresumecease
- 12. Multiple Choice
Finally the students were able to _________ working, it was Friday and they were exhausted!
cease
diminish
correspond
presume
- 13. Multiple ChoiceTo give inepidemicfurypreserveconcede
- 14. Multiple Choiceto express disapproval of; to depreciate one's effortsdeprecatedemuredemagoguedestitute
- 15. Multiple Choice
to suffer something difficult, unpleasant, or painful; to survive
Endure
Disparage
Endow
Discord
- 16. Multiple Choice
It's a shame to let 10 years of friendship ________ over a silly disagreement.
endure
dissolve
profess
agitation
- 17. Multiple Choice
He __________ his love for her, but he was really after her fortune.
endure
concede
profess
deprecate
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