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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery" selected as the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, Lincoln Prize and the Bancroft Prize?
(a) 2008.
(b) 1998.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2009.

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

3. Who was the 12th President of the United States?
(a) Andrew Jackson.
(b) Henry Clay.
(c) Zachary Taylor.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

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

5. What was the name of Abraham Lincoln's wife?
(a) Elizabeth Lee Lincoln.
(b) Mary Todd Lincoln.
(c) Mary Elizabeth Lincoln.
(d) Sarah Todd Lincoln.

Short Answer Questions

1. What American political party was founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854?

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?

3. Spain enacted the first European law abolishing colonial slavery in what year?

4. James K. Polk was which President of the United States?

5. In what state was James K. Polk born?

(see the answer key)

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