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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Abraham Lincoln when his family moved to Illinois?
(a) 16.
(b) 18.
(c) 23.
(d) 21.

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

3. What were cheap, tabloid-style papers produced in the middle of the 19th century?
(a) Nickel press newspapers.
(b) Free newspapers.
(c) Penny press newspapers.
(d) Pulp fiction.

4. The focus in the 1840s was not the abolition of slavery, but was what?
(a) Women's rights.
(b) Curbing the spread of slavery.
(c) Agricultural rights.
(d) Universal health care.

5. James K. Polk was born in what year?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1833.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Eric Foner won the Bancroft Prize in 1989 for what book?

3. What was the name of John C. Fremont's mother?

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. What repelled the Missouri Compromise and gave the right of the citizens of new territories to choose whether they entered the Union as a slave or free state?

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