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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what state was James K. Polk born?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) South Carolina.

4. In what year did Lincoln deliver a speech against the current president, criticizing his policy regarding Mexico and the struggle that was taking place between the United States and Mexico?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1759.

5. For what state was John C. Fremont a U.S. Senator?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) California.
(d) Kansas.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In what year did Lincoln give a speech denouncing America's new policy regarding slavery in new western territories, as described in Chapter 3?

4. What political party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the contemporary U.S. political spectrum?

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

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