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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Confiscation laws.
(b) Fugitive slave laws.
(c) The Border Laws.
(d) The Black Codes.

2. In what year did Lincoln deliver a speech against the current president, criticizing his policy regarding Mexico and the struggle that was taking place between the United States and Mexico?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1759.

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

4. How many members comprise the U.S. House of Representatives?
(a) 435.
(b) 522.
(c) 615.
(d) 120.

5. The Somersett's case in what year emancipated a slave in England and helped launch the movement to abolish slavery?
(a) 1782.
(b) 1772.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1745.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Abraham Lincoln born?

2. What political party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the contemporary U.S. political spectrum?

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

4. How old was Abraham Lincoln when his family moved to Illinois?

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

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