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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. James Buchanan was which President of the United States?
(a) 11th.
(b) 12th.
(c) 15th.
(d) 16th.

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

4. In what year did Abraham Lincoln present his House Divided speech?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1820.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1833.

5. What was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy, and was operating from the early 1830s to the mid-1850s?
(a) The Tea Party.
(b) The Republican Party.
(c) The Whig Party.
(d) The Democratic Party.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the 12th President of the United States?

2. When was Henry Clay born?

3. 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?

4. Where did Lincoln give a speech during the 1860 presidential campaign in which he stated that the Republicans did not want to change slavery in states where it already existed, but only wanted to stop it from expanding?

5. In 2000, Eric Foner was elected president of what organization?

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