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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dred Scott was born a slave in what state?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Kentucky.

2. What is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives?
(a) Parliament.
(b) The Presidential Cabinet.
(c) Congress.
(d) Judiciary Committee.

3. How many candidates did the Democratic Party present for the 1860 presidential election?
(a) 0.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

4. In what year did West Virginia abolish slavery?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1831.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1864.

5. What were Europeans who participated in or supported the revolutions of 1848 that swept Europe called?
(a) The Copperheads.
(b) Forty-Eighters.
(c) War Democrats.
(d) Forty-Niners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of a major command of the United States Army during the 19th century which oversaw the military affairs in the country west of the Mississippi River to the borders of California and Oregon?

2. 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?

3. What is Latin for a statement "said in passing"?

4. On what historic date did General Benjamin F. Butler decide not to send a group of escape slaves back to their owners?

5. Where was General Benjamin F. Butler assigned when he decided not to send a group of escape slaves back to their owners?

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