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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Britain abolished slavery throughout the British Empire with the Slavery Abolition Act in what year?
(a) 1782.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1807.

2. 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?
(a) Missouri.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Kansas.

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

4. When did the Mexican-American War begin?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1846.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Dred Scott was born a slave in what state?

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

3. To what political party did John C. Fremont belong?

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. When was the Wisconsin Enabling Act enacted?

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