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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) An amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
(b) The document that freed all slaves in the United States.
(c) A speech about the state of the Union economy.
(d) The document that outlawed slavery in the Confederate States.

2. What did the Emancipation Proclamation not prohibit?
(a) Owners from reclaiming their slaves from the North.
(b) New slaves from being brought into America.
(c) Slavery in the South.
(d) Slavery outside the South.

3. What did the Southwesterners want Andrew Jackson to do?
(a) Take Texas for the United States.
(b) Create a private banking system.
(c) Oppose the bank and force states to provide debt relief.
(d) Run for president of the United States.

4. How did the Founders plan for legislature to be processed?
(a) Through elected officials.
(b) Through democratic inputs.
(c) Through fair representation.
(d) By experienced men.

5. Why were the Founders hesitant to establish a new monarchy?
(a) There was no royal bloodline from which to choose a King.
(b) One man could not run a country effectively.
(c) Too many different philosophies existed to choose one man.
(d) A monarch rules in his own interests.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which act gave Abraham Lincoln the opportunity to use slavery as a political issue?

2. Why was John C. Calhoun forced to resign from Andrew Jackson's cabinet?

3. What concern did Abraham Lincoln have about secession?

4. How did Abraham Lincoln force the Confederacy into a battle?

5. With what famous military victory is Andrew Jackson associated?

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