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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 1833.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1848.

2. Slavery had been prohibited in Indiana and Illinois since what year?
(a) 1787.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1700.

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

4. What is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives?
(a) The Presidential Cabinet.
(b) Congress.
(c) Parliament.
(d) Judiciary Committee.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Abraham Lincoln was a member of what political party from the early part of his career until the 1850s?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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