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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Spain enacted the first European law abolishing colonial slavery in what year?
(a) 1598.
(b) 1754.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1542.

2. In the 1840s, most of Lincoln's income was derived from what?
(a) His farm.
(b) His medical practice.
(c) His architecture firm.
(d) His law practice.

3. In 2000, Eric Foner was elected president of what organization?
(a) The Historical Association of New Hampshire.
(b) The Chicago Historical Association.
(c) The American Historical Association.
(d) The Pennsylvania Historical Association.

4. James Buchanan was which President of the United States?
(a) 11th.
(b) 12th.
(c) 15th.
(d) 16th.

5. 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) Kentucky.
(b) Missouri.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Louisiana.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Henry Clay born?

2. What was a minor political party in the United States in the 1840s which was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause?

3. Abraham Lincoln's wife was the daughter of a what?

4. When was James K. Polk elected President of the United States?

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

(see the answer key)

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