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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) The Border Laws.
(b) The Black Codes.
(c) Fugitive slave laws.
(d) Confiscation laws.

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

3. For what state was John C. Fremont a U.S. Senator?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) California.
(d) Kansas.

4. To what political party did James K. Polk belong?
(a) The Free Soil Party.
(b) The Democratic Party.
(c) The Republican Party.
(d) The Whig Party.

5. What was the 19th century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent?
(a) Sovereign Duty.
(b) Manifest Destiny.
(c) Colonialism.
(d) Congressional Duty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Abraham Lincoln's wife?

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

3. When did the Louisiana Purchase take place?

4. 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?

5. Eric Foner won the Bancroft Prize in 1989 for what book?

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