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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Stephen A. Douglas from?
(a) Indiana.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Nebraska.

2. In what year was John C. Breckinridge born?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1821.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1818.

3. What nickname did Stephen A. Douglas have in politics?
(a) "Goliath."
(b) "Giant Tortoise."
(c) "Little Giant."
(d) "The Great Bear."

4. Where did Lincoln give a speech during the 1860 presidential campaign in which he stated that the Republicans did not want to change slavery in states where it already existed, but only wanted to stop it from expanding?
(a) The Cooper Institute.
(b) Penn State.
(c) The U.S. State House.
(d) New York University.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was John C. Breckinridge born?

2. Who was the 14th President of the United States?

3. When did Lincoln publish his Emancipation Proclamation?

4. 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?

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

(see the answer key)

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