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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In 2000, Eric Foner was elected president of what organization?
(a) The American Historical Association.
(b) The Pennsylvania Historical Association.
(c) The Historical Association of New Hampshire.
(d) The Chicago Historical Association.

3. Who founded the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator?
(a) William Lloyd Garrison.
(b) Martin Van Buren.
(c) John P. Hale.
(d) David Ruggles.

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

5. What does GOP stand for?
(a) Governor of Politics.
(b) Grand Organization of Plenty.
(c) Grand Old Party.
(d) Great Old Politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Abraham Lincoln born?

2. When did Lincoln issue a Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?

3. In what year did the United States of America annex the Republic of Texas?

4. Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation offered gradual emancipation and what to border states and any states that returned voluntarily to the Union?

5. What, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War?

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