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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Henry Clay born?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1777.

2. What, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War?
(a) The Mason Affair.
(b) The MSA.
(c) The Trent Affair.
(d) The British Affair.

3. 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?
(a) January 1, 1863.
(b) January 1, 1862.
(c) September 14, 1862.
(d) October 1, 1864.

4. When was John C. Fremont born?
(a) 1813.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1759.

5. In the context of the American Civil War, what refers to slave states that did not declare their secession from the United States before April 1861?
(a) Border states.
(b) Undecided states.
(c) Middle states.
(d) The Confederacy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a minor political party in the United States in the 1840s which was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause?

2. In what year did Abraham Lincoln present his House Divided speech?

3. What was the first American political party, from the early 1790s to 1816?

4. When was the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, founded?

5. The Constitutional Union Party was established in what year?

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