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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. The Somersett's case in what year emancipated a slave in England and helped launch the movement to abolish slavery?
(a) 1745.
(b) 1772.
(c) 1782.
(d) 1776.

2. Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
(a) Martin Van Buren.
(b) John Wilkes Booth.
(c) Andrew Jackson.
(d) John P. Hale.

3. The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed by the Senate on what date?
(a) April 8, 1864.
(b) August 16, 1864.
(c) December 6, 1865.
(d) January 31, 1865.

4. Who founded the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator?
(a) William Lloyd Garrison.
(b) John P. Hale.
(c) Martin Van Buren.
(d) David Ruggles.

5. 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) Diplomaticism.
(b) Conventionalism.
(c) Conservative interventionalism.
(d) Non-interventionism.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Emancipation Proclamation did not pertain to the slaves in the border states, leaving nearly how many people in bondage?

2. What was the name of a proposed Central American colony suggested by United States Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas in 1862?

3. Who was the sixth President of the United States?

4. The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted as law on what date?

5. To what state did Abraham Lincoln's family move when he was seven years old?

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