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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections?
(a) The Free Soil Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

2. When did the Mexican-American War end?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1846.

3. What movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1840s and 1850s, and was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants?
(a) The Anti-Immigration movement.
(b) The Tea Party.
(c) The Know Nothing movement.
(d) The Abolitionist movement.

4. In what year did Lincoln give a speech denouncing America's new policy regarding slavery in new western territories, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1854.

5. What is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives?
(a) The Presidential Cabinet.
(b) Congress.
(c) Judiciary Committee.
(d) Parliament.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1840s, most of Lincoln's income was derived from what?

2. Abraham Lincoln's wife was the daughter of a what?

3. Who was the 14th President of the United States?

4. In 2000, Eric Foner was elected president of what organization?

5. Where was Eric Foner born?

(see the answer key)

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