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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eric Foner has been a member of the faculty of the Department of History at what university since 1982?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Columbia University.

2. How many slave states in the South immediately declared their independence when Lincoln was elected?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 11.

3. What group in American politics of the 1860s were adherents of the Democratic Party who demanded a more aggressive policy toward the Confederacy and supported the policies of President Abraham Lincoln when the Civil War broke out?
(a) The Free Soilers.
(b) War Democrats.
(c) The Copperheads.
(d) Forty-Eighters.

4. Where did William H. Seward study law?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) Union College.
(c) Penn State.
(d) New York University.

5. Stephen A. Douglas was a candidate for what party in the 1860 presidential election?
(a) Whig Party.
(b) Democratic Party.
(c) Republican Party.
(d) Libertarian Party.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did West Virginia abolish slavery?

2. When did the the Supreme Court hand down the Dred Scott Decision?

3. When did the United States Civil War begin?

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

5. When did Abraham Lincoln first meet with Frederick Douglass?

(see the answer key)

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