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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a foreign policy which holds that political rulers should avoid alliances with other nations, but still retain diplomacy, and avoid all wars not related to direct self-defense?
(a) Conservative interventionalism.
(b) Non-interventionism.
(c) Diplomaticism.
(d) Conventionalism.

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

3. When did the United States Civil War begin?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1862.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1860.

4. The Emancipation Proclamation proclaimed the freedom of how many of the nation's slaves?
(a) 4.2 million.
(b) 3.1 million.
(c) 6 million.
(d) 4 million.

5. For what state was John C. Fremont a U.S. Senator?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Kansas.
(c) Ohio.
(d) California.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805 until June 4, 1812?

2. Where did William H. Seward study law?

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

4. In what year did Lincoln give a speech denouncing America's new policy regarding slavery in new western territories, as described in Chapter 3?

5. Dred Scott was born a slave in what state?

(see the answer key)

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