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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What state asked to be entered into the Union as a separate state, agreeing that all black children born after July 1863 would be free?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) West Virginia.

2. Where was John C. Breckinridge born?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Tennessee.

3. What refers to a trend of thought that favors equality of some sort among moral agents, whether persons or animals?
(a) Egalitarianism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Humanitarianism.
(d) Capitalism.

4. In the context of the American Civil War, what refers to slave states that did not declare their secession from the United States before April 1861?
(a) Undecided states.
(b) Middle states.
(c) Border states.
(d) The Confederacy.

5. The Emancipation Proclamation did not pertain to the slaves in the border states, leaving nearly how many people in bondage?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 1 million.
(c) 2 million.
(d) 4 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Maryland abolish slavery?

2. What was the name of a proposed Central American colony suggested by United States Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas in 1862?

3. What term means to seize as forfeited to the public domain; appropriate, by way of penalty, for public use?

4. To what political party did James K. Polk belong?

5. In what year was John C. Breckinridge born?

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