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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 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?
(a) The Mississippi Ordinance.
(b) The Western Ordinance.
(c) The Northwest Ordinance.
(d) The Oregon Ordinance.

2. Britain abolished slavery throughout the British Empire with the Slavery Abolition Act in what year?
(a) 1782.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1807.
(d) 1833.

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

4. In what year did Abraham Lincoln assume the Presidency of the United States?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1869.

5. What was the 19th century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent?
(a) Colonialism.
(b) Congressional Duty.
(c) Sovereign Duty.
(d) Manifest Destiny.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 2000, Eric Foner was elected president of what organization?

2. Henry Clay represented what state in both the Senate and the House of Representatives?

3. When was James K. Polk elected President of the United States?

4. The focus in the 1840s was not the abolition of slavery, but was what?

5. Where was Eric Foner born?

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