CHST 301 Final Exam
Frederick Douglass correct answers"Every year brings with it multitudes of this class of slaves. It was
doubtless in consequence of a knowledge of this fact, that one great statesman of the south predicted
the downfall of slavery by the inevitable laws of population. Whether this prophecy is ever fulfilled or
not, it is nevertheless plain that a very different-looking class of people are springing up at the south,
and are now held in slavery, from those originally brought to this country from Africa; and if their
increase do no other good, it will do away the force of the argument, that God cursed Ham, and
therefore American slavery is right."
Frederick Douglass correct answers"It was a new and special revelation, explaining dark and mysterious
things, with which my youthful understanding had struggled, but struggled in vain. I now understood
what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty--to wit, the white man's power to enslave the black
man."
Frederick Douglass correct answers"This battle with Mr. Covey was the turning-point in my career as a
slave. It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own
manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be
free."
Frederick Douglass correct answers"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that
reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the
constant victim."
Secession Resolutions correct answers"That the institution of slavery existed prior to the formation of
the federal Constitution, and is recognized by its letter, and all efforts to impair its value or lessen its
duration by Congress, or any of the free states, is a violation of the compact of Union and is destructive
of the ends for which it was ordained, but in defiance of the principles of the Union thus established, the
people of the Northern states have assumed a revolutionary position toward the Southern states..."
Secession Resolutions correct answers"That they have set at defiance that provision of the Constitution
which was intended to secure domestic tranquility among the states and promote their general welfare,
namely: "No person held to service or labor in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another
shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall
be delivered up, on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due..."
, Lincoln: First Inaugural correct answers"This country with its institutions, belongs to the people who
inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their
constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it..."
Lincoln: Second Inaugural correct answers"On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all
thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While
the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the union
without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war-seeking to dissolve the
union and divide effects by negotiation..."
Lincoln: Second Inaugural correct answers"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in
the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the
nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do
all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
Gettysburg Address correct answers"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created
equal."
Gettysburg Address correct answersNow we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation,
or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that
war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave
their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this."
Gettysburg Adress correct answersBut, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate- we
can not hallow- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far
above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here,
but it can never forget what they did here..."
Wilson: The New Freedom correct answers"I believe, for one, that you cannot tear up ancient rootages
and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil which is not native to it. I believe that the ancient traditions of a
people are its ballast; you cannot make a tabula rasa upon which to write a political program. You cannot
take a new sheet of paper and determine what your life shall be tomorrow. You must knit the new into
the old. You cannot put a new patch on an old garment without ruining it..."
