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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the 13th President of the United States?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Millard Fillmore.
(d) Zachary Taylor.

2. Abraham Lincoln was a member of what political party from the early part of his career until the 1850s?
(a) The Democratic Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Republican Party.
(d) The Free Soil Party.

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

4. What was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805 until June 4, 1812?
(a) The Spanish Territory.
(b) The Louisiana Territory.
(c) The Mexican Territory.
(d) The Texas Territory.

5. Where did Lincoln give a speech during the 1860 presidential campaign in which he stated that the Republicans did not want to change slavery in states where it already existed, but only wanted to stop it from expanding?
(a) The U.S. State House.
(b) Penn State.
(c) The Cooper Institute.
(d) New York University.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Constitutional Union Party was established in what year?

2. What were cheap, tabloid-style papers produced in the middle of the 19th century?

3. As they campaigned for the Senate in 1858, Lincoln and his supporters decided to invite who to debate the issues?

4. James K. Polk was born in what year?

5. The focus in the 1840s was not the abolition of slavery, but was what?

(see the answer key)

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