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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was a major general during the American Civil War and organized the famous Army of the Potomac?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) Andrew Gregg Curtin.
(c) George B. McClellan.
(d) Zachary Taylor.

2. Abraham Lincoln was a member of what political party from the early part of his career until the 1850s?
(a) The Whig Party.
(b) The Democratic Party.
(c) The Free Soil Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

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

4. The Dred Scott ruling was the first time since what case that the Court held an Act of Congress to be unconstitutional?
(a) Marbury v. Madison.
(b) Anderson v. Harvard.
(c) Clay v. Madison.
(d) Smith v. Madison.

5. When was the American Colonization Society founded?
(a) 1825.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1816.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery" selected as the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, Lincoln Prize and the Bancroft Prize?

3. 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?

4. There are well documented trips Lincoln made down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in both 1828 and what year?

5. What was the 19th century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent?

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