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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Stephen A. Douglas from?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Nebraska.

2. In the 1840s, most of Lincoln's income was derived from what?
(a) His medical practice.
(b) His architecture firm.
(c) His farm.
(d) His law practice.

3. The Dred Scott Decision was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants) were what?
(a) Protected by the Constitution.
(b) Not protected by the Constitution.
(c) Freed men.
(d) Free to vote.

4. The Dred Scott ruling was the first time since what case that the Court held an Act of Congress to be unconstitutional?
(a) Clay v. Madison.
(b) Anderson v. Harvard.
(c) Marbury v. Madison.
(d) Smith v. Madison.

5. In what year did Abraham Lincoln present his House Divided speech?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1820.
(d) 1861.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was James K. Polk elected President of the United States?

2. What is the political principle that the legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people, who are the source of all political power?

3. James Buchanan was a member of what political party when he was elected U.S. President?

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

5. When was the Wisconsin Enabling Act enacted?

(see the answer key)

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