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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Eric Foner born?
(a) Little Rock, AR.
(b) Akron, OH.
(c) New York, NY.
(d) Chicago, IL.

2. Abraham Lincoln was a member of what political party from the early part of his career until the 1850s?
(a) The Democratic Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Free Soil Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

3. When was the author Eric Foner born?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1935.

4. In what year did Abraham Lincoln assume the Presidency of the United States?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1861.

5. What was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States with the primary effect being the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States?
(a) The Western Ordinance.
(b) The Northwest Ordinance.
(c) The Mississippi Ordinance.
(d) The Oregon Ordinance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the 1840s, most of Lincoln's income was derived from what?

3. What was the 19th century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent?

4. To what political party did James K. Polk belong?

5. 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?

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