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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. For what state was John C. Fremont a U.S. Senator?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Ohio.
(d) California.

4. James Buchanan was which President of the United States?
(a) 15th.
(b) 16th.
(c) 12th.
(d) 11th.

5. The Emancipation Proclamation did not pertain to the slaves in the border states, leaving nearly how many people in bondage?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 4 million.
(c) 2 million.
(d) 200,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When did Lincoln issue a Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?

3. What movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1840s and 1850s, and was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants?

4. When was James Buchanan born?

5. The Constitutional Union Party was established in what year?

(see the answer key)

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