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Quiz episode 6

Test your investigative skills and knowledge of history below. Just answer true or false and then click through for the answers. The questions are based on the three cases of episode six.

Good luck!

1. The Missouri Compromise influenced whether territories becoming states could own slaves or not.
 True
 False
2. In the nineteenth century, private citizens invaded Caribbean and Latin American countries.
 True
 False
3. Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was an out-of-work wheelwright.
 True
 False
4. New York City was violently opposed to the Civil War.
 True
 False
5. The Secret Service was started to help protect the economy.
 True
 False
6. The earliest cannons were used in English Civil War.
 True
 False