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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There are well documented trips Lincoln made down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in both 1828 and what year?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1831.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1818.

2. What was an act of Congress during the early months of the American Civil War permitting the confiscation of any of property, including slaves, being used to support the Confederate insurrection?
(a) The Confiscation Act of 1850.
(b) The Confiscation Act of 1865.
(c) The Confiscation Act of 1861.
(d) The Confiscation Act of 1881.

3. What is Latin for a statement "said in passing"?
(a) Obiter dictum.
(b) Reiter dictum.
(c) Salovar dictum.
(d) Umber dictum.

4. What temporarily neutralized the issue of slavery and undercut the Free Soil Party's no-compromise position?
(a) The Compromise of 1840.
(b) The Compromise of 1812.
(c) The Compromise of 1961.
(d) The Compromise of 1850.

5. In what year was John C. Breckinridge born?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1821.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections?

2. When did the Civil War in America end?

3. What American political party was founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854?

4. How did Abraham Lincoln feel about his father, according to the author?

5. Who did Lincoln suggest was tearing apart the country instead of the Republicans during a speech in the 1860 presidential campaign?

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