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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Abraham Lincoln when his family moved to Illinois?
(a) 23.
(b) 16.
(c) 21.
(d) 18.

2. Eric Foner won the Bancroft Prize in 1989 for what book?
(a) Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877.
(b) A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln.
(c) The Story of American Freedom.
(d) America's Black Past: A Reader in Afro-American History.

3. 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 Department.
(b) Northwest Organization.
(c) Department of the Mississippi.
(d) Department of the West.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what historic date did General Benjamin F. Butler decide not to send a group of escape slaves back to their owners?

2. 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?

3. The Constitutional Union Party was also known as what in the state of California?

4. In the 1840s, most of Lincoln's income was derived from what?

5. What refers to goods that a neutral nation cannot supply to a belligerent nation except at the risk of seizure and confiscation?

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