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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was a major general during the American Civil War and organized the famous Army of the Potomac?
(a) George B. McClellan.
(b) Andrew Gregg Curtin.
(c) Henry Clay.
(d) Zachary Taylor.

2. What was the name of John C. Fremont's mother?
(a) Sarah Elizabeth Newton.
(b) Elizabeth Anderson.
(c) Anne Beverly Whiting.
(d) Anne Jefferson Smith.

3. The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and in what year?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1850.

4. Where was Eric Foner born?
(a) Chicago, IL.
(b) New York, NY.
(c) Akron, OH.
(d) Little Rock, AR.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Henry Clay born?

2. Eric Foner won the Bancroft Prize in 1989 for what book?

3. What candidate was presented by the Constitutional Union Party in the 1860 presidential election?

4. What was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy, and was operating from the early 1830s to the mid-1850s?

5. In what year did West Virginia abolish slavery?

(see the answer key)

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