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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Abraham Lincoln assume the Presidency of the United States?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1861.

2. The Battle of Antietam was fought on what date?
(a) November 12, 1860.
(b) September 17, 1862.
(c) September 12, 1863.
(d) October 11, 1860.

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

4. What was the first American political party, from the early 1790s to 1816?
(a) The Federalist Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Free Soil Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

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?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Missouri.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Louisiana.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or especially a political entity?

2. James Buchanan was which President of the United States?

3. Where did Lincoln make a speech in Springfield that included a discussion on the violence that surrounded the abolitionist movement in Chapter 1?

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

5. Stephen A. Douglas was a candidate for what party in the 1860 presidential election?

(see the answer key)

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