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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what historic date did General Benjamin F. Butler decide not to send a group of escape slaves back to their owners?
(a) March 16, 1862.
(b) May 23, 1861.
(c) May 12, 1861.
(d) September 14, 1863.

2. What refers to the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory?
(a) Congruity.
(b) Union.
(c) Sovereignty.
(d) Catalysm.

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?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Popular sovereignty.
(c) Conservatism.
(d) Capitalism.

4. What was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805 until June 4, 1812?
(a) The Mexican Territory.
(b) The Louisiana Territory.
(c) The Texas Territory.
(d) The Spanish Territory.

5. When was the Republican Party founded in the United States?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1833.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Abraham Lincoln's wife?

2. The Battle of Antietam was fought on what date?

3. Who was an anti-slavery activist who was active in the New York Committee of Vigilance and the Underground Railroad and helped Frederick Douglass escape to freedom?

4. Who was the 12th President of the United States?

5. In the 1840s, most of Lincoln's income was derived from what?

(see the answer key)

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