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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group in American politics of the 1860s were adherents of the Democratic Party who demanded a more aggressive policy toward the Confederacy and supported the policies of President Abraham Lincoln when the Civil War broke out?
(a) The Copperheads.
(b) The Free Soilers.
(c) War Democrats.
(d) Forty-Eighters.

2. Henry Clay represented what state in both the Senate and the House of Representatives?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Louisiana.

3. What refers to a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates?
(a) The Liberty Party.
(b) The Free Soil Party.
(c) The Copperheads.
(d) War Democrats.

4. When did the Mexican-American War begin?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1846.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1848.

5. What candidate was presented by the Constitutional Union Party in the 1860 presidential election?
(a) John P. Hale.
(b) John C. Bell.
(c) Zachary Taylor.
(d) James Anderson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the 13th President of the United States?

2. 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?

3. What were Europeans who participated in or supported the revolutions of 1848 that swept Europe called?

4. James K. Polk was which President of the United States?

5. What does GOP stand for?

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