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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Eric Foner won the Bancroft Prize in 1989 for what book?
(a) The Story of American Freedom.
(b) Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877.
(c) America's Black Past: A Reader in Afro-American History.
(d) A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln.

3. When did the the Supreme Court hand down the Dred Scott Decision?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1833.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What political party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the contemporary U.S. political spectrum?

3. When was John C. Fremont born?

4. When was the Missouri Compromise enacted?

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

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