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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. James K. Polk was which President of the United States?
(a) 11th.
(b) 10th.
(c) 12th.
(d) 13th.

2. What was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections?
(a) The Free Soil Party.
(b) The Republican Party.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The Whig Party.

3. What was a minor political party in the United States in the 1840s which was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause?
(a) The Green Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Liberty Party.
(d) The Free Soil Party.

4. Eric Foner won the Bancroft Prize in 1989 for what book?
(a) The Story of American Freedom.
(b) America's Black Past: A Reader in Afro-American History.
(c) Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877.
(d) A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln.

5. Spain enacted the first European law abolishing colonial slavery in what year?
(a) 1542.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1754.
(d) 1598.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Henry Clay born?

3. 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?

4. How many members comprise the U.S. House of Representatives?

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

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