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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the eighth President of the United States?
(a) Zachary Taylor.
(b) John P. Hale.
(c) Martin Van Buren.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

2. To what political party did James K. Polk belong?
(a) The Free Soil Party.
(b) The Republican Party.
(c) The Whig Party.
(d) The Democratic Party.

3. Who was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) Zachary Taylor.
(c) Clay Taylor.
(d) Stonewall Jackson.

4. What were Europeans who participated in or supported the revolutions of 1848 that swept Europe called?
(a) Forty-Niners.
(b) The Copperheads.
(c) Forty-Eighters.
(d) War Democrats.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Missouri Compromise enacted?

2. In what year did Abraham Lincoln assume the Presidency of the United States?

3. In the 1840s, Lincoln helped represent a slave owner whose slave and four children claimed to be free when the owner transported them from where into Illinois?

4. The Battle of Antietam was fought on what date?

5. When was the Republican Party founded in the United States?

(see the answer key)

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