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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade was also known as what?
(a) The Trent Treaty.
(b) The Lyons-Seward Treaty.
(c) The Lincoln Treaty.
(d) The Mason-Swift Treaty.

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

4. When did Lincoln publish his Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) June 14, 1864.
(b) July 12, 1863.
(c) January 1, 1862.
(d) January 1, 1863.

5. The Constitutional Union Party was established in what year?
(a) 1851.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1860.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state asked to be entered into the Union as a separate state, agreeing that all black children born after July 1863 would be free?

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

3. When did Lincoln issue a Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?

4. Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation stated that the South had until what date to return to Union or face the freeing of their slaves immediately?

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

(see the answer key)

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