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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To Lincoln,abolishing slavery in what state was the most important step because it was the only state in the South in which he attempted to apply his plan for Reconstruction as he had in Missouri and Tennessee?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Kentucky.

2. When was Henry Clay born?
(a) 1777.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1833.

3. Henry Clay represented what state in both the Senate and the House of Representatives?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Indiana.

4. What was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States with the primary effect being the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States?
(a) The Western Ordinance.
(b) The Oregon Ordinance.
(c) The Northwest Ordinance.
(d) The Mississippi Ordinance.

5. What is the framework for the organization of the United States government and for the relationship of the federal government with the states, citizens, and all people within the United States?
(a) The Ten Amendments.
(b) The Ten Commandments.
(c) The Constitution.
(d) The Bill of Rights.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and in what year?

3. What was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805 until June 4, 1812?

4. The Whig party began to fracture in the early part of what decade?

5. As they campaigned for the Senate in 1858, Lincoln and his supporters decided to invite who to debate the issues?

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