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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) 8.
(c) 11.
(d) 5.

2. In what year did West Virginia abolish slavery?
(a) 1864.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1831.

3. In what year did Maryland abolish slavery?
(a) 1831.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1864.
(d) 1865.

4. When was John C. Fremont born?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1813.
(d) 1865.

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

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. 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?

3. What refers to laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory?

4. What is Latin for a statement "said in passing"?

5. Abraham Lincoln was a member of what political party from the early part of his career until the 1850s?

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