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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did the United States of America annex the Republic of Texas?
(a) 1846.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1848.

2. Abraham Lincoln's wife was the daughter of a what?
(a) Actor.
(b) Painter.
(c) Banker.
(d) Farmer.

3. What political party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the contemporary U.S. political spectrum?
(a) The Whig Party.
(b) The Tea Party.
(c) The Republican Party.
(d) The Democratic Party.

4. The Dred Scott ruling was the first time since what case that the Court held an Act of Congress to be unconstitutional?
(a) Smith v. Madison.
(b) Marbury v. Madison.
(c) Clay v. Madison.
(d) Anderson v. Harvard.

5. Dred Scott was born a slave in what state?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Arkansas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does GOP stand for?

2. What American political party was founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854?

3. Eric Foner won the Bancroft Prize in 1989 for what book?

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

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

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