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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What repelled the Missouri Compromise and gave the right of the citizens of new territories to choose whether they entered the Union as a slave or free state?
(a) The Kansas-Nebraska Act .
(b) The Nebraska-Oregon Act.
(c) The Nebraska-Ohio Act.
(d) The Louisiana Act.

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

3. Who was the 14th President of the United States?
(a) Zachary Taylor.
(b) Franklin Pierce.
(c) Millard Fillmore.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

4. What political party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the contemporary U.S. political spectrum?
(a) The Democratic Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Tea Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

5. 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 Ten Amendments.
(b) The Constitution.
(c) The Ten Commandments.
(d) The Bill of Rights.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did the Louisiana Purchase take place?

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

4. Who was the 12th President of the United States?

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

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