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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory?
(a) Confiscation laws.
(b) The Black Codes.
(c) Fugitive slave laws.
(d) The Border Laws.

2. The Somersett's case in what year emancipated a slave in England and helped launch the movement to abolish slavery?
(a) 1782.
(b) 1745.
(c) 1772.
(d) 1776.

3. Who was the 14th President of the United States?
(a) Zachary Taylor.
(b) Franklin Pierce.
(c) Andrew Jackson.
(d) Millard Fillmore.

4. The Opinion of the Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford was written by what U.S. Chief Justice?
(a) Zachary Taylor.
(b) Roger B. Taney.
(c) Henry Clay.
(d) Millard Fillmore.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Slavery had been prohibited in Indiana and Illinois since what year?

2. The Dred Scott ruling was the first time since what case that the Court held an Act of Congress to be unconstitutional?

3. What refers to a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself or one's group?

4. There are well documented trips Lincoln made down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in both 1828 and what year?

5. The Whig party began to fracture in the early part of what decade?

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