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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Pennsylvania governor was a staunch defender of the war effort and Lincoln Administration policies during the Civil War?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) George B. McClellan.
(c) Andrew Gregg Curtin.
(d) Zachary Taylor.

2. When was Abraham Lincoln born?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1814.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1809.

3. What refers to the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or especially a political entity?
(a) Indiscretion.
(b) Succession.
(c) Embargo.
(d) Secession.

4. Spain enacted the first European law abolishing colonial slavery in what year?
(a) 1542.
(b) 1598.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1754.

5. For what state was John C. Fremont a U.S. Senator?
(a) Kansas.
(b) California.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Kentucky.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Mexican-American War begin?

2. Britain banned the importation of African slaves in its colonies in what year?

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?

4. When did the the Supreme Court hand down the Dred Scott Decision?

5. The federal government had prohibited slavery within the Wisconsin Territory in the Missouri Compromise in what year?

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