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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of John C. Fremont's mother?
(a) Elizabeth Anderson.
(b) Anne Jefferson Smith.
(c) Sarah Elizabeth Newton.
(d) Anne Beverly Whiting.

2. What was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805 until June 4, 1812?
(a) The Mexican Territory.
(b) The Spanish Territory.
(c) The Texas Territory.
(d) The Louisiana Territory.

3. When was the Missouri Compromise enacted?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1820.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1833.

4. Henry Clay represented what state in both the Senate and the House of Representatives?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Indiana.

5. To what political party did James K. Polk belong?
(a) The Free Soil Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Republican Party.
(d) The Democratic Party.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Lincoln make a speech in Springfield that included a discussion on the violence that surrounded the abolitionist movement in Chapter 1?

2. When was John C. Fremont born?

3. What refers to the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory?

4. What repelled the Missouri Compromise and gave the right of the citizens of new territories to choose whether they entered the Union as a slave or free state?

5. To what state did Abraham Lincoln's family move when he was seven years old?

(see the answer key)

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