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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Abraham Lincoln born?
(a) 1814.
(b) 1809.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1825.

2. When was James K. Polk elected President of the United States?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1795.

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

4. When was the Missouri Compromise enacted?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1820.

5. Britain abolished slavery throughout the British Empire with the Slavery Abolition Act in what year?
(a) 1782.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1807.
(d) 1833.

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

7. The Whig party began to fracture in the early part of what decade?
(a) 1860s.
(b) 1850s.
(c) 1803s.
(d) 1840s.

8. What repelled the Missouri Compromise and gave the right of the citizens of new territories to choose whether they entered the Union as a slave or free state?
(a) The Nebraska-Oregon Act.
(b) The Louisiana Act.
(c) The Kansas-Nebraska Act .
(d) The Nebraska-Ohio Act.

9. When was John C. Fremont born?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1813.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1865.

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

11. What was a minor political party in the United States in the 1840s which was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause?
(a) The Liberty Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Free Soil Party.
(d) The Green Party.

12. When was the Republican Party founded in the United States?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1854.

13. What were cheap, tabloid-style papers produced in the middle of the 19th century?
(a) Free newspapers.
(b) Pulp fiction.
(c) Penny press newspapers.
(d) Nickel press newspapers.

14. In the wake of the Dred Scot decision, President Buchanan declared that slavery existed in all states under the Constitution and tried to bring what state in as a slave state?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Illinois.

15. 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 Republican Party.
(b) The Tea Party.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The Whig Party.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the 19th century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent?

2. The Dred Scott Decision was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants) were what?

3. Where was Abraham Lincoln born?

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

5. What is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives?

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