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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was James Buchanan born?
(a) Illinois.
(b) New York.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Pennsylvania.

3. What was the 19th century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent?
(a) Manifest Destiny.
(b) Congressional Duty.
(c) Sovereign Duty.
(d) Colonialism.

4. Where was Abraham Lincoln born?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Kentucky.

5. How old was Abraham Lincoln when his family moved to Illinois?
(a) 23.
(b) 16.
(c) 18.
(d) 21.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Abraham Lincoln feel about his father, according to the author?

3. What movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1840s and 1850s, and was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants?

4. When did the Mexican-American War end?

5. Eric Foner has been a member of the faculty of the Department of History at what university since 1982?

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