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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) 1848.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1861.

2. What was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy, and was operating from the early 1830s to the mid-1850s?
(a) The Tea Party.
(b) The Democratic Party.
(c) The Whig Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

3. What was a minor political party in the United States in the 1840s which was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause?
(a) The Free Soil Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Liberty Party.
(d) The Green Party.

4. There are well documented trips Lincoln made down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in both 1828 and what year?
(a) 1840.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1831.
(d) 1818.

5. Pennsylvania passed An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in what year?
(a) 1780.
(b) 1782.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1772.

Short Answer Questions

1. James Buchanan was which President of the United States?

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

3. How did Abraham Lincoln feel about his father, according to the author?

4. Where was Eric Foner born?

5. Henry Clay represented what state in both the Senate and the House of Representatives?

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