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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Whig Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

2. What does GOP stand for?
(a) Grand Organization of Plenty.
(b) Governor of Politics.
(c) Grand Old Party.
(d) Great Old Politics.

3. In what year did Abraham Lincoln assume the Presidency of the United States?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1869.

4. Who ran for the Free Soil Party in the 1852 presidential election?
(a) Martin Van Buren.
(b) Zachary Taylor.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) John P. Hale.

5. What refers to the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory?
(a) Congruity.
(b) Catalysm.
(c) Sovereignty.
(d) Union.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1840s, most of Lincoln's income was derived from what?

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

3. In the 1840s, Lincoln helped represent a slave owner whose slave and four children claimed to be free when the owner transported them from where into Illinois?

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

5. What is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives?

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