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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 2000, Eric Foner was elected president of what organization?
(a) The American Historical Association.
(b) The Chicago Historical Association.
(c) The Pennsylvania Historical Association.
(d) The Historical Association of New Hampshire.

2. When was the American Colonization Society founded?
(a) 1816.
(b) 1825.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1818.

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

4. When was the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution adopted?
(a) June 14, 1867.
(b) July 12, 1868.
(c) July 9, 1868.
(d) September 1, 1868.

5. What was the name of a proposed Central American colony suggested by United States Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas in 1862?
(a) Pomeroy Island.
(b) New America.
(c) Lincoln Island.
(d) Linconia.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Mexican-American War end?

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

3. The assassination of Lincoln occurred how many days after Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant?

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

5. In the 1840s, Lincoln helped represent a slave owner whose slave and four children claimed to be free when the owner transported them from where into Illinois?

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