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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Wisconsin Enabling Act enacted?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1836.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1820.

2. When was the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, founded?
(a) 1831.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1795.

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

4. During the 1860 presidential campaign, Lincoln promoted the Republican Party as what kind of party, despite their views on slavery?
(a) Industrial.
(b) Fiscal.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Liberal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Abraham Lincoln's wife was the daughter of a what?

2. What political party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the contemporary U.S. political spectrum?

3. When did Lincoln issue a Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?

4. The Emancipation Proclamation did not pertain to the slaves in the border states, leaving nearly how many people in bondage?

5. What was the 19th century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent?

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