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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a minor political party in the United States in the 1840s which was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause?
(a) The Green Party.
(b) The Liberty Party.
(c) The Free Soil Party.
(d) The Whig Party.

2. What is the framework for the organization of the United States government and for the relationship of the federal government with the states, citizens, and all people within the United States?
(a) The Constitution.
(b) The Ten Amendments.
(c) The Bill of Rights.
(d) The Ten Commandments.

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

4. Spain enacted the first European law abolishing colonial slavery in what year?
(a) 1598.
(b) 1754.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1542.

5. How old was Abraham Lincoln when his family moved to Illinois?
(a) 23.
(b) 21.
(c) 16.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Eric Foner has been a member of the faculty of the Department of History at what university since 1982?

3. How many members comprise the U.S. House of Representatives?

4. Britain abolished slavery throughout the British Empire with the Slavery Abolition Act in what year?

5. What refers to the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory?

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