Advanced Placement-Style United States History
  Question of the Day--Answer and Explanation

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Question 978:

    Concerning the issue of the abolition of slavery, match this quote with its author: “I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest – I will not equivocate – I will not excuse – I will not retreat a single inch – AND I WILL BE HEARD”

    (A)    Abraham Lincoln and the 1846 "spot resolutions"
    (B)    William Lloyd Garrison in his initial edition of the newspaper The Liberator in 1831
    (C)    Stephen Douglas promoting the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854
    (D)    Daniel Webster advocating for the Compromise of 1850
    (E) James Buchanan on the secession of South Carolina in 1860
Answer:
  (B)    William Lloyd Garrison in his initial edition of the newspaper The Liberator in 1831
Explanation:
In 1831 Garrison began publishing The Liberator, a strident abolitionist newspaper. Once told that the Constitution supported the institution of slavery, Garrison responded that the Constitution should be burned.


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