House Divided Speech True or False

1. "Have we no tendency to the latter condition?" What is the "latter condition" Lincoln's referring to? -> Slavery becoming legal in all states.
2. "…both Nebraska Bill and lawsuit were brought to a decision in the same month of May 1854." What lawsuit is Lincoln referring to? -> Dred Scott v. Sandford
3. Fill in the blank: "Under the Dred Scott decision, ________ squatted out of existence, tumbled down like temporary scaffolding." -> "squatter sovereignty"
4. "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 Constitution
5. 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." -> Illinois; Maryland

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