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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Spanish Territory.
(c) The Texas Territory.
(d) The Mexican Territory.

2. In what state was James K. Polk born?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) South Carolina.

3. There are well documented trips Lincoln made down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in both 1828 and what year?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1831.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1818.

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

5. Where was James Buchanan born?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Abraham Lincoln's wife was the daughter of a what?

3. What American political party was founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854?

4. When did the Mexican-American War end?

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

(see the answer key)

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