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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 the maternal grandmother who raised Frederick Douglass until the age of 7?
(a) Marie Bailey.
(b) Betty Bailey.
(c) Sarah Hale.
(d) Josephine Hale.

2. 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?
(a) John P. Hale.
(b) David Ruggles.
(c) Martin Van Buren.
(d) William Lloyd Garrison.

3. The focus in the 1840s was not the abolition of slavery, but was what?
(a) Curbing the spread of slavery.
(b) Universal health care.
(c) Agricultural rights.
(d) Women's rights.

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

5. What was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the US?
(a) The Rebel Forces of America.
(b) The Union of America.
(c) The Confederate States of America.
(d) The Lower Confederacy.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Emancipation Proclamation proclaimed the immediate freedom of how many of the nation's slaves?

2. What Pennsylvania governor was a staunch defender of the war effort and Lincoln Administration policies during the Civil War?

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

4. 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?

5. Stephen A. Douglas was a candidate for what party in the 1860 presidential election?

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