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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory?
(a) Fugitive slave laws.
(b) Confiscation laws.
(c) The Black Codes.
(d) The Border Laws.

2. Where was Eric Foner born?
(a) Akron, OH.
(b) Little Rock, AR.
(c) New York, NY.
(d) Chicago, IL.

3. The Whig party began to fracture in the early part of what decade?
(a) 1803s.
(b) 1860s.
(c) 1840s.
(d) 1850s.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was James K. Polk elected President of the United States?

2. In what year did Lincoln deliver a speech against the current president, criticizing his policy regarding Mexico and the struggle that was taking place between the United States and Mexico?

3. What refers to the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or especially a political entity?

4. Abraham Lincoln's wife was the daughter of a what?

5. When was Henry Clay born?

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