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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. What refers to a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates?
(a) The Liberty Party.
(b) The Copperheads.
(c) War Democrats.
(d) The Free Soil Party.

2. Where did Lincoln make a speech in Springfield that included a discussion on the violence that surrounded the abolitionist movement in Chapter 1?
(a) The Young Men's Lyceum.
(b) The Center for Policy.
(c) The New York Museum.
(d) The Philadelphia Museum.

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

4. When did the United States Civil War begin?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1862.

5. What American political party was founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854?
(a) The Democratic Party.
(b) The Republican Party.
(c) The Whig Party.
(d) The Tea Party.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was James Buchanan born?

2. Who was an anti-slavery activist who was active in the New York Committee of Vigilance and the Underground Railroad and helped Frederick Douglass escape to freedom?

3. Who was the maternal grandmother who raised Frederick Douglass until the age of 7?

4. Who founded the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator?

5. Who was the 14th President of the United States?

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