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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Republican Party founded in the United States?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1833.

2. What was the first American political party, from the early 1790s to 1816?
(a) The Federalist Party.
(b) The Free Soil Party.
(c) The Whig Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

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

4. What was the name of John C. Fremont's mother?
(a) Elizabeth Anderson.
(b) Sarah Elizabeth Newton.
(c) Anne Jefferson Smith.
(d) Anne Beverly Whiting.

5. To what political party did John C. Fremont belong?
(a) The Whig Party.
(b) The Free Soil Party.
(c) The Republican Party.
(d) The Democratic Party.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Henry Clay born?

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

3. What temporarily neutralized the issue of slavery and undercut the Free Soil Party's no-compromise position?

4. 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?

5. In what year did U.S. Army Major John Emerson purchase Dred Scott?

(see the answer key)

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