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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. James Buchanan was a member of what political party when he was elected U.S. President?
(a) The Federalist Party.
(b) The Republican Party.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The Whig Party.

3. 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 Nebraska-Oregon Act.
(b) The Louisiana Act.
(c) The Nebraska-Ohio Act.
(d) The Kansas-Nebraska Act .

4. Pennsylvania passed An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in what year?
(a) 1780.
(b) 1782.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1772.

5. What refers to the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory?
(a) Catalysm.
(b) Sovereignty.
(c) Congruity.
(d) Union.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does GOP stand for?

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

3. What were cheap, tabloid-style papers produced in the middle of the 19th century?

4. To what political party did John C. Fremont belong?

5. When was Abraham Lincoln born?

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