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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) The Nebraska-Ohio Act.
(b) The Nebraska-Oregon Act.
(c) The Kansas-Nebraska Act .
(d) The Louisiana Act.

2. Who was the 14th President of the United States?
(a) Franklin Pierce.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) Zachary Taylor.
(d) Millard Fillmore.

3. When was the American Colonization Society founded?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1816.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1825.

4. The Whig party began to fracture in the early part of what decade?
(a) 1850s.
(b) 1840s.
(c) 1803s.
(d) 1860s.

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 Louisiana Territory.
(d) The Mexican Territory.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Constitutional Union Party was also known as what in the state of California?

2. 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?

3. What was the name of a proposed Central American colony suggested by United States Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas in 1862?

4. In order to get around the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln allowed states in the South to hold what in which he required a majority of citizens to vote?

5. Where did William H. Seward study law?

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