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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) The Anti-Immigration movement.
(b) The Tea Party.
(c) The Abolitionist movement.
(d) The Know Nothing movement.

2. Illinois had prohibited slavery in its constitution in what year when it was admitted as a state?
(a) 1819.
(b) 1832.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1836.

3. When was Abraham Lincoln born?
(a) 1825.
(b) 1809.
(c) 1814.
(d) 1800.

4. Abraham Lincoln was a member of what political party from the early part of his career until the 1850s?
(a) The Democratic Party.
(b) The Free Soil Party.
(c) The Republican Party.
(d) The Whig Party.

5. What temporarily neutralized the issue of slavery and undercut the Free Soil Party's no-compromise position?
(a) The Compromise of 1840.
(b) The Compromise of 1812.
(c) The Compromise of 1850.
(d) The Compromise of 1961.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were cheap, tabloid-style papers produced in the middle of the 19th century?

3. The Somersett's case in what year emancipated a slave in England and helped launch the movement to abolish slavery?

4. Who was the 12th President of the United States?

5. For what state was John C. Fremont a U.S. Senator?

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