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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 2000, Eric Foner was elected president of what organization?
(a) The Chicago Historical Association.
(b) The Historical Association of New Hampshire.
(c) The American Historical Association.
(d) The Pennsylvania Historical Association.

2. Illinois had prohibited slavery in its constitution in what year when it was admitted as a state?
(a) 1836.
(b) 1819.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1832.

3. Abraham Lincoln was a member of what political party from the early part of his career until the 1850s?
(a) The Whig Party.
(b) The Republican Party.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The Free Soil Party.

4. When was Henry Clay born?
(a) 1777.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1848.

5. When did the Mexican-American War begin?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1846.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States with the primary effect being the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States?

3. What is the political principle that the legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people, who are the source of all political power?

4. The federal government had prohibited slavery within the Wisconsin Territory in the Missouri Compromise in what year?

5. When was the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, founded?

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