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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Abraham Lincoln's wife was the daughter of a what?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Banker.
(c) Painter.
(d) Actor.

2. What was the name of Abraham Lincoln's wife?
(a) Elizabeth Lee Lincoln.
(b) Mary Elizabeth Lincoln.
(c) Mary Todd Lincoln.
(d) Sarah Todd Lincoln.

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

4. James K. Polk was born in what year?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1795.

5. In the 1840s, most of Lincoln's income was derived from what?
(a) His medical practice.
(b) His architecture firm.
(c) His farm.
(d) His law practice.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Pennsylvania passed An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in what year?

3. To what political party did John C. Fremont belong?

4. Where was Eric Foner born?

5. What was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy, and was operating from the early 1830s to the mid-1850s?

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