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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the 1840s, Lincoln helped represent a slave owner whose slave and four children claimed to be free when the owner transported them from where into Illinois?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Kansas.
(c) Missouri.
(d) Kentucky.

2. What was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy, and was operating from the early 1830s to the mid-1850s?
(a) The Democratic Party.
(b) The Republican Party.
(c) The Tea Party.
(d) The Whig Party.

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

4. 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 Philadelphia Museum.
(b) The New York Museum.
(c) The Center for Policy.
(d) The Young Men's Lyceum.

5. There are well documented trips Lincoln made down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in both 1828 and what year?
(a) 1840.
(b) 1831.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1861.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Henry Clay born?

2. How did Abraham Lincoln feel about his father, according to the author?

3. In what year did Abraham Lincoln assume the Presidency of the United States?

4. In 2000, Eric Foner was elected president of what organization?

5. To what state did Abraham Lincoln's family move when he was seven years old?

(see the answer key)

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