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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect did slavery have on politics in the 1850s?
(a) It brought people of different political parties together.
(b) It confused the issues of popular sovereignty and federal authority.
(c) It divided people within political parties into fractious groups.
(d) It muddied the issue of Indian removal.

2. Who was the President when Lincoln served in the Senate?
(a) Taylor.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Polk.
(d) Harrison.

3. When was Lincoln elected to Congress?
(a) 1847.
(b) 1846.
(c) 1842.
(d) 1852.

4. From where did Lincoln know Mary Owens?
(a) A family he knew in Virginia.
(b) A family he knew in New Salem.
(c) A family he had worked for in Indiana.
(d) A family he met in Illinois.

5. What was the Republican Party founded on?
(a) Opposition to slavery.
(b) Opposition to popular sovereignty.
(c) Opposition to the Gold Standard.
(d) Opposition to Women's Suffrage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lincoln do when he returned to Illinois?

2. Who was Stephen Douglas?

3. Whom did Lincoln support in the 1852 Presidential campaign?

4. What did Lincoln mean by the phrase "cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason"?

5. Who was Stephen Logan?

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