In the Course of His Campaign Against Stephen Douglas in 1858

question 1

Multiple Choice

In the course of his campaign against Stephen Douglas in 1858, Abraham Lincoln declared all of the following except

• A) Congress had no constitutional authority to abolish slavery in the South.
• B) Social and political equality between blacks and whites was not desirable.
• C) The Dred Scott decision rendered popular sovereignty "as thin as soup boiled from the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death."
• D) This nation cannot exist permanently half slave and half free.
• E) The best way to preserve the Union was to ensure that slavery was legal in all states, North and South.

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