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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Free Soil Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

2. Who ran for the Free Soil Party in the 1852 presidential election?
(a) Zachary Taylor.
(b) John P. Hale.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Martin Van Buren.

3. To what political party did James K. Polk belong?
(a) The Free Soil Party.
(b) The Republican Party.
(c) The Whig Party.
(d) The Democratic Party.

4. The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and in what year?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1845.

5. In what year did U.S. Army Major John Emerson purchase Dred Scott?
(a) 1836.
(b) 1832.
(c) 1820.
(d) 1848.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pennsylvania passed An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in what year?

2. What was the 19th century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent?

3. Eric Foner has been a member of the faculty of the Department of History at what university since 1982?

4. What is the framework for the organization of the United States government and for the relationship of the federal government with the states, citizens, and all people within the United States?

5. The Whig party began to fracture in the early part of what decade?

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