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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1840s and 1850s, and was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants?
(a) The Tea Party.
(b) The Anti-Immigration movement.
(c) The Abolitionist movement.
(d) The Know Nothing movement.

2. James K. Polk was born in what year?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1795.

3. In what state was James K. Polk born?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Louisiana.

4. 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?
(a) Department of the West.
(b) Northwest Organization.
(c) Department of the Mississippi.
(d) Northwest Department.

5. Abraham Lincoln's wife was the daughter of a what?
(a) Actor.
(b) Banker.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Painter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Frederick Douglass born?

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 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?

4. In what year did Maryland abolish slavery?

5. 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?

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