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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 2000, Eric Foner was elected president of what organization?
(a) The Historical Association of New Hampshire.
(b) The American Historical Association.
(c) The Pennsylvania Historical Association.
(d) The Chicago Historical Association.

2. 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?
(a) The Kansas-Nebraska Act .
(b) The Louisiana Act.
(c) The Nebraska-Oregon Act.
(d) The Nebraska-Ohio Act.

3. In what state was James K. Polk born?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) South Carolina.

4. When did the the Supreme Court hand down the Dred Scott Decision?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1857.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Abraham Lincoln when his family moved to Illinois?

2. In what year did Abraham Lincoln present his House Divided speech?

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

4. Britain abolished slavery throughout the British Empire with the Slavery Abolition Act in what year?

5. Who was the 13th President of the United States?

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