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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Abraham Lincoln's wife?
(a) Elizabeth Lee Lincoln.
(b) Mary Todd Lincoln.
(c) Sarah Todd Lincoln.
(d) Mary Elizabeth Lincoln.

2. When did the Louisiana Purchase take place?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1807.
(c) 1803.
(d) 1811.

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

4. The Dred Scott Decision was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants) were what?
(a) Freed men.
(b) Free to vote.
(c) Not protected by the Constitution.
(d) Protected by the Constitution.

5. Where was General Benjamin F. Butler assigned when he decided not to send a group of escape slaves back to their owners?
(a) Fort Wayne.
(b) Fortress Jackson.
(c) Fortress Monroe.
(d) Fort Amador.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the framework for the organization of the United States government and for the relationship of the federal government with the states, citizens, and all people within the United States?

2. In the wake of the Dred Scot decision, President Buchanan declared that slavery existed in all states under the Constitution and tried to bring what state in as a slave state?

3. 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?

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. How did Abraham Lincoln feel about his father, according to the author?

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