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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was John C. Breckinridge born?
(a) 1821.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1818.

2. To Lincoln,abolishing slavery in what state was the most important step because it was the only state in the South in which he attempted to apply his plan for Reconstruction as he had in Missouri and Tennessee?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Kentucky.

3. When was the Wisconsin Enabling Act enacted?
(a) 1820.
(b) 1832.
(c) 1836.
(d) 1848.

4. When was Frederick Douglass born?
(a) 1821.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1882.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Stephen A. Douglas born?

2. In 1820, the American Colonization Society began sending black volunteers where to establish a colony for freed American slaves?

3. The federal government had prohibited slavery within the Wisconsin Territory in the Missouri Compromise in what year?

4. When was Abraham Lincoln born?

5. Who did Lincoln suggest was tearing apart the country instead of the Republicans during a speech in the 1860 presidential campaign?

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