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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Abraham Lincoln's wife?
(a) Sarah Todd Lincoln.
(b) Elizabeth Lee Lincoln.
(c) Mary Elizabeth Lincoln.
(d) Mary Todd Lincoln.

2. What is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives?
(a) The Presidential Cabinet.
(b) Congress.
(c) Judiciary Committee.
(d) Parliament.

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

4. James K. Polk was born in what year?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1795.

5. How did Abraham Lincoln feel about his father, according to the author?
(a) He resented him.
(b) He was inspired by him.
(c) He envied him.
(d) He worshipped him.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What refers to a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself or one's group?

4. What was an act of Congress during the early months of the American Civil War permitting the confiscation of any of property, including slaves, being used to support the Confederate insurrection?

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?

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