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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Constitutional Union Party was established in what year?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1851.
(d) 1860.

2. When was Stephen A. Douglas born?
(a) 1779.
(b) 1801.
(c) 1813.
(d) 1798.

3. Where was Abraham Lincoln born?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Kentucky.

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

5. Pennsylvania passed An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in what year?
(a) 1780.
(b) 1772.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1782.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee?

2. What was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the US?

3. What refers to a trend of thought that favors equality of some sort among moral agents, whether persons or animals?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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