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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. Dred Scott was born a slave in what state?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Louisiana.
2. 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 Anti-Immigration movement.
(b) The Abolitionist movement.
(c) The Know Nothing movement.
(d) The Tea Party.
3. In what year did Dred Scott accompany his owners to Missouri?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1830.
4. Britain banned the importation of African slaves in its colonies in what year?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1807.
(c) 1782.
(d) 1772.
5. In what year did Abraham Lincoln present his House Divided speech?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1820.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1860.
Short Answer Questions
1. Spain enacted the first European law abolishing colonial slavery in what year?
2. When did the Mexican-American War begin?
3. 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?
4. In 2000, Eric Foner was elected president of what organization?
5. Pennsylvania passed An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in what year?
Short Essay Questions
1. What issues within the abolitionist movement led to new debates at the end of Chapter 4?
2. What intention does the author state in the Preface of "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery"?
3. Describe Abraham Lincoln's most controversial court case discussed in Chapter 2. What was the outcome of the trial?
4. Who was John C. Fremont? What relationship did Fremont have with Lincoln?
5. What does the author relate of Lincoln's early childhood in Chapter 1? Where was Lincoln born?
6. What contact with slavery did Lincoln have in his youth, as discussed in Chapter 1?
7. When was the Dred Scott Decision handed down from the Supreme Court? What did it declare?
8. When and why did the Republican Party emerge in the 1850s? How did Lincoln fit in with the Republicans?
9. What led to the debates between Lincoln and Douglas in Chapter 4? What was their impact?
10. Who was Stephen A. Douglas? How did Douglas' views on slavery differ from Lincoln's?
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