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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Latin for a statement "said in passing"?
(a) Reiter dictum.
(b) Obiter dictum.
(c) Umber dictum.
(d) Salovar dictum.
2. What is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives?
(a) Judiciary Committee.
(b) The Presidential Cabinet.
(c) Parliament.
(d) Congress.
3. The Opinion of the Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford was written by what U.S. Chief Justice?
(a) Roger B. Taney.
(b) Millard Fillmore.
(c) Henry Clay.
(d) Zachary Taylor.
4. What movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1840s and 1850s, and was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants?
(a) The Abolitionist movement.
(b) The Anti-Immigration movement.
(c) The Know Nothing movement.
(d) The Tea Party.
5. What was the first American political party, from the early 1790s to 1816?
(a) The Free Soil Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Federalist Party.
(d) The Republican Party.
Short Answer 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?
2. When did the Mexican-American War begin?
3. Who ran for the Free Soil Party in the 1852 presidential election?
4. Henry Clay represented what state in both the Senate and the House of Representatives?
5. Britain abolished slavery throughout the British Empire with the Slavery Abolition Act in what year?
Short Essay Questions
1. What contact with slavery did Lincoln have in his youth, as discussed in Chapter 1?
2. What issues within the abolitionist movement led to new debates at the end of Chapter 4?
3. What was the global and national status of slavery during the late 1700s and early 1800s?
4. When did Abraham Lincoln first become involved in the abolitionist movement, as discussed in Chapter 1?
5. How did Lincoln's political associations change in the 1850s? What party had he been affiliated with?
6. What was significant about the 1856 presidential election for Lincoln's career?
7. What intention does the author state in the Preface of "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery"?
8. Who was John C. Fremont? What relationship did Fremont have with Lincoln?
9. Describe Abraham Lincoln's most controversial court case discussed in Chapter 2. What was the outcome of the trial?
10. What does the author relate of Lincoln's early childhood in Chapter 1? Where was Lincoln born?
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