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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections?
(a) The Whig Party.
(b) The Free Soil Party.
(c) The Republican Party.
(d) The Democratic Party.

2. What American political party was founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854?
(a) The Democratic Party.
(b) The Republican Party.
(c) The Tea Party.
(d) The Whig Party.

3. Who was the eighth President of the United States?
(a) Martin Van Buren.
(b) Zachary Taylor.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) John P. Hale.

4. 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) October 1, 1864.
(b) January 1, 1862.
(c) September 14, 1862.
(d) January 1, 1863.

5. Where was John C. Fremont commanding forces during the war and freeing the slaves of rebels whom he executed?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Missouri.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many slave states in the South immediately declared their independence when Lincoln was elected?

2. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation under his authority as what under Article II, section 2 of the United States Constitution?

3. What refers to the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or especially a political entity?

4. When did Lincoln issue a Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?

5. The Whig party began to fracture in the early part of what decade?

(see the answer key)

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