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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Republican Party founded in the United States?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1865.

2. 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?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Missouri.

3. Dred Scott was born a slave in what state?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Louisiana.

4. During the 1860 presidential campaign, Lincoln promoted the Republican Party as what kind of party, despite their views on slavery?
(a) Liberal.
(b) Industrial.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Fiscal.

5. In what state was James K. Polk born?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) South Carolina.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Eric Foner born?

2. Where was John C. Breckinridge born?

3. In what year did Dred Scott accompany his owners to Missouri?

4. How old was Abraham Lincoln when his family moved to Illinois?

5. In the late 1850s, Lincoln argued that what would be much more profitable if brought to the South because the workers would much better motivated to work if they were promised wages at the end of the day?

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