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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of a major command of the United States Army during the 19th century which oversaw the military affairs in the country west of the Mississippi River to the borders of California and Oregon?
(a) Northwest Organization.
(b) Northwest Department.
(c) Department of the West.
(d) Department of the Mississippi.

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?
(a) The Nebraska-Ohio Act.
(b) The Nebraska-Oregon Act.
(c) The Louisiana Act.
(d) The Kansas-Nebraska Act .

3. When was the author Eric Foner born?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1943.

4. When was James K. Polk elected President of the United States?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1795.

5. 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) The Black Codes.
(b) The Border Laws.
(c) Fugitive slave laws.
(d) Confiscation laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eric Foner has been a member of the faculty of the Department of History at what university since 1982?

2. What candidate was presented by the Constitutional Union Party in the 1860 presidential election?

3. Slavery had been prohibited in Indiana and Illinois since what year?

4. As they campaigned for the Senate in 1858, Lincoln and his supporters decided to invite who to debate the issues?

5. Pennsylvania passed An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in what year?

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