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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a foreign policy which holds that political rulers should avoid alliances with other nations, but still retain diplomacy, and avoid all wars not related to direct self-defense?
(a) Diplomaticism.
(b) Non-interventionism.
(c) Conventionalism.
(d) Conservative interventionalism.

2. James Buchanan was a member of what political party when he was elected U.S. President?
(a) The Democratic Party.
(b) The Republican Party.
(c) The Whig Party.
(d) The Federalist Party.

3. When was the Republican Party founded in the United States?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1861.

4. When did the Mexican-American War end?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1846.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1848.

5. What was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805 until June 4, 1812?
(a) The Spanish Territory.
(b) The Texas Territory.
(c) The Mexican Territory.
(d) The Louisiana Territory.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what political party did John C. Fremont belong?

2. When was William H. Seward born?

3. How many slave states in the South immediately declared their independence when Lincoln was elected?

4. Where was Stephen A. Douglas from?

5. What repelled the Missouri Compromise and gave the right of the citizens of new territories to choose whether they entered the Union as a slave or free state?

(see the answer key)

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