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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Abraham Lincoln assume the Presidency of the United States?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1848.

2. Eric Foner has been a member of the faculty of the Department of History at what university since 1982?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Columbia University.

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

4. What was the name of John C. Fremont's mother?
(a) Anne Beverly Whiting.
(b) Sarah Elizabeth Newton.
(c) Elizabeth Anderson.
(d) Anne Jefferson Smith.

5. 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) Missouri.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Kentucky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Abraham Lincoln's wife?

2. The Somersett's case in what year emancipated a slave in England and helped launch the movement to abolish slavery?

3. What was the first American political party, from the early 1790s to 1816?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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