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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a trend of thought that favors equality of some sort among moral agents, whether persons or animals?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Humanitarianism.
(d) Egalitarianism.

2. In what year did Maryland abolish slavery?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1831.
(d) 1795.

3. There are well documented trips Lincoln made down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in both 1828 and what year?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1831.
(d) 1840.

4. To what political party did John C. Fremont belong?
(a) The Whig Party.
(b) The Democratic Party.
(c) The Free Soil Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

5. Where was James Buchanan born?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Illinois.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the 13th President of the United States?

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

3. What was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the US?

4. What does GOP stand for?

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

(see the answer key)

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