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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was the 12th President of the United States?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) Zachary Taylor.
(d) Henry Clay.

3. Abraham Lincoln's wife was the daughter of a what?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Banker.
(c) Actor.
(d) Painter.

4. 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 Kansas-Nebraska Act .
(b) The Nebraska-Ohio Act.
(c) The Louisiana Act.
(d) The Nebraska-Oregon Act.

5. Where was Abraham Lincoln born?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Illinois.

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. What candidate was presented by the Constitutional Union Party in the 1860 presidential election?

3. What political party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the contemporary U.S. political spectrum?

4. Abraham Lincoln was a member of what political party from the early part of his career until the 1850s?

5. Who was the eighth President of the United States?

(see the answer key)

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