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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Britain banned the importation of African slaves in its colonies in what year?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1782.
(c) 1772.
(d) 1807.

2. Where was Eric Foner born?
(a) New York, NY.
(b) Little Rock, AR.
(c) Chicago, IL.
(d) Akron, OH.

3. 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?
(a) The Tea Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Republican Party.
(d) The Democratic Party.

4. Where did Lincoln make a speech in Springfield that included a discussion on the violence that surrounded the abolitionist movement in Chapter 1?
(a) The Philadelphia Museum.
(b) The Young Men's Lyceum.
(c) The New York Museum.
(d) The Center for Policy.

5. Eric Foner won the Bancroft Prize in 1989 for what book?
(a) Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877.
(b) The Story of American Freedom.
(c) America's Black Past: A Reader in Afro-American History.
(d) A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself or one's group?

2. What refers to laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory?

3. James K. Polk was born in what year?

4. What was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections?

5. When was Abraham Lincoln born?

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