1. What does GOP stand for?
(a) Governor of Politics.
(b) Grand Organization of Plenty.
(c) Grand Old Party.
(d) Great Old Politics.

2. Who was the 13th President of the United States?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Zachary Taylor.
(c) Millard Fillmore.
(d) Henry Clay.

3. In what year did the United States of America annex the Republic of Texas?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1846.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1865.

4. The Constitutional Union Party was also known as what in the state of California?
(a) The Bell-Everett Party.
(b) The Democratic Party.
(c) The Free Soil Party.
(d) The Liberty Party.

5. The Opinion of the Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford was written by what U.S. Chief Justice?
(a) Zachary Taylor.
(b) Roger B. Taney.
(c) Henry Clay.
(d) Millard Fillmore.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation offered gradual emancipation and what to border states and any states that returned voluntarily to the Union?

2. When was the author Eric Foner born?

3. How many slave states in the South immediately declared their independence when Lincoln was elected?

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

5. To what state did Abraham Lincoln's family move when he was seven years old?

(see the answer key)

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