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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eric Foner won the Bancroft Prize in 1989 for what book?
(a) Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877.
(b) The Story of American Freedom.
(c) America's Black Past: A Reader in Afro-American History.
(d) A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln.

2. What refers to laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory?
(a) Fugitive slave laws.
(b) The Border Laws.
(c) The Black Codes.
(d) Confiscation laws.

3. What was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy, and was operating from the early 1830s to the mid-1850s?
(a) The Republican Party.
(b) The Democratic Party.
(c) The Whig Party.
(d) The Tea Party.

4. James K. Polk was which President of the United States?
(a) 12th.
(b) 11th.
(c) 13th.
(d) 10th.

5. When was the Wisconsin Enabling Act enacted?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1820.
(c) 1836.
(d) 1832.

Short Answer Questions

1. Stephen A. Douglas was a candidate for what party in the 1860 presidential election?

2. What was the first American political party, from the early 1790s to 1816?

3. When did the the Supreme Court hand down the Dred Scott Decision?

4. In what year did U.S. Army Major John Emerson purchase Dred Scott?

5. When was the Republican Party founded in the United States?

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