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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what political party did John C. Fremont belong?
(a) The Free Soil Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

2. In what year did Lincoln deliver a speech against the current president, criticizing his policy regarding Mexico and the struggle that was taking place between the United States and Mexico?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1759.

3. The Dred Scott ruling was the first time since what case that the Court held an Act of Congress to be unconstitutional?
(a) Smith v. Madison.
(b) Clay v. Madison.
(c) Anderson v. Harvard.
(d) Marbury v. Madison.

4. In the wake of the Dred Scot decision, President Buchanan declared that slavery existed in all states under the Constitution and tried to bring what state in as a slave state?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Kansas.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Illinois.

5. In what year did Lincoln give a speech denouncing America's new policy regarding slavery in new western territories, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1759.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805 until June 4, 1812?

2. When did Lincoln publish his Emancipation Proclamation?

3. When was the Missouri Compromise enacted?

4. What candidate was presented by the Constitutional Union Party in the 1860 presidential election?

5. What was the first American political party, from the early 1790s to 1816?

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