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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did the United States of America annex the Republic of Texas?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1846.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1865.

2. In what year did Dred Scott accompany his owners to Missouri?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1759.

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

4. The Whig party began to fracture in the early part of what decade?
(a) 1860s.
(b) 1850s.
(c) 1803s.
(d) 1840s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Eric Foner born?

2. In 2000, Eric Foner was elected president of what organization?

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

4. When was the Republican Party founded in the United States?

5. Spain enacted the first European law abolishing colonial slavery in what year?

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