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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. How many slave states in the South immediately declared their independence when Lincoln was elected?
(a) 3.
(b) 11.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

2. The Treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade was also known as what?
(a) The Lyons-Seward Treaty.
(b) The Mason-Swift Treaty.
(c) The Lincoln Treaty.
(d) The Trent Treaty.

3. Spain enacted the first European law abolishing colonial slavery in what year?
(a) 1598.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1542.
(d) 1754.

4. When was James K. Polk elected President of the United States?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1759.

5. What were laws put in place in the United States after the Civil War with the effect of limiting the basic human rights and civil liberties of blacks?
(a) The Border Laws.
(b) The Black Codes.
(c) The Freedom Codes.
(d) The Confiscation Laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the framework for the organization of the United States government and for the relationship of the federal government with the states, citizens, and all people within the United States?

2. When was the Republican Party founded in the United States?

3. Where was Stephen A. Douglas from?

4. Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation offered gradual emancipation and what to border states and any states that returned voluntarily to the Union?

5. To what political party did John C. Fremont belong?

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