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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Constitutional Union Party was made up primarily of former members of what political party?
(a) The Whig Party.
(b) The Democratic Party.
(c) The Liberty Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

2. The Dred Scott Decision was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants) were what?
(a) Protected by the Constitution.
(b) Not protected by the Constitution.
(c) Free to vote.
(d) Freed men.

3. What American political party was founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854?
(a) The Republican Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The Tea Party.

4. When was James Buchanan born?
(a) 1791.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1759.

5. Eric Foner won the Bancroft Prize in 1989 for what book?
(a) America's Black Past: A Reader in Afro-American History.
(b) A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln.
(c) Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877.
(d) The Story of American Freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Lincoln issue a Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?

2. When did Abraham Lincoln first meet with Frederick Douglass?

3. The Constitutional Union Party was established in what year?

4. Where was John C. Fremont commanding forces during the war and freeing the slaves of rebels whom he executed?

5. Eric Foner has been a member of the faculty of the Department of History at what university since 1982?

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