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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was John C. Fremont born?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1813.

2. 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?
(a) The Nebraska-Ohio Act.
(b) The Kansas-Nebraska Act .
(c) The Louisiana Act.
(d) The Nebraska-Oregon Act.

3. When did the Louisiana Purchase take place?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1811.
(d) 1807.

4. Where was James Buchanan born?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) New York.
(d) Kentucky.

5. To what state did Abraham Lincoln's family move when he was seven years old?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Pennsylvania.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Eric Foner born?

2. Who was the 12th President of the United States?

3. What was a minor political party in the United States in the 1840s which was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause?

4. Where was Abraham Lincoln born?

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

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