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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What political party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the contemporary U.S. political spectrum?
(a) The Whig Party.
(b) The Republican Party.
(c) The Tea Party.
(d) The Democratic Party.

2. What was the name of Abraham Lincoln's wife?
(a) Elizabeth Lee Lincoln.
(b) Mary Todd Lincoln.
(c) Mary Elizabeth Lincoln.
(d) Sarah Todd Lincoln.

3. What refers to a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates?
(a) The Free Soil Party.
(b) The Copperheads.
(c) The Liberty Party.
(d) War Democrats.

4. When was James Buchanan born?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1791.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1759.

5. In 1820, the American Colonization Society began sending black volunteers where to establish a colony for freed American slaves?
(a) The Gulf Coast.
(b) The Humboldt Coast.
(c) The Pepper Coast.
(d) The Gold Coast.

Short Answer Questions

1. James K. Polk was born in what year?

2. Slavery had been prohibited in Indiana and Illinois since what year?

3. Britain banned the importation of African slaves in its colonies in what year?

4. There are well documented trips Lincoln made down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in both 1828 and what year?

5. What American political party was founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854?

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