View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was the Missouri Compromise enacted?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1820.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1865.

3. What was the name of a major command of the United States Army during the 19th century which oversaw the military affairs in the country west of the Mississippi River to the borders of California and Oregon?
(a) Department of the Mississippi.
(b) Department of the West.
(c) Northwest Department.
(d) Northwest Organization.

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

5. Stephen A. Douglas was a candidate for what party in the 1860 presidential election?
(a) Democratic Party.
(b) Whig Party.
(c) Republican Party.
(d) Libertarian Party.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to goods that a neutral nation cannot supply to a belligerent nation except at the risk of seizure and confiscation?

2. What refers to a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates?

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

4. Pennsylvania passed An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in what year?

5. What was the 19th century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 225 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample