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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was James K. Polk elected President of the United States?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1845.

2. James K. Polk was born in what year?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1759.

3. Henry Clay represented what state in both the Senate and the House of Representatives?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Kentucky.

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

5. In what year did U.S. Army Major John Emerson purchase Dred Scott?
(a) 1820.
(b) 1836.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1832.

6. What political party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the contemporary U.S. political spectrum?
(a) The Whig Party.
(b) The Democratic Party.
(c) The Tea Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

7. Eric Foner has been a member of the faculty of the Department of History at what university since 1982?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Princeton University.

8. What was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805 until June 4, 1812?
(a) The Spanish Territory.
(b) The Louisiana Territory.
(c) The Mexican Territory.
(d) The Texas Territory.

9. James Buchanan was a member of what political party when he was elected U.S. President?
(a) The Whig Party.
(b) The Federalist Party.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

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

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

12. 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?
(a) The Ten Commandments.
(b) The Ten Amendments.
(c) The Constitution.
(d) The Bill of Rights.

13. What refers to laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory?
(a) Fugitive slave laws.
(b) Confiscation laws.
(c) The Black Codes.
(d) The Border Laws.

14. James K. Polk was which President of the United States?
(a) 13th.
(b) 12th.
(c) 10th.
(d) 11th.

15. 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) Protected by the Constitution.
(b) Not protected by the Constitution.
(c) Freed men.
(d) Free to vote.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Latin for a statement "said in passing"?

2. The federal government had prohibited slavery within the Wisconsin Territory in the Missouri Compromise in what year?

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

4. Spain enacted the first European law abolishing colonial slavery in what year?

5. Who was the 14th President of the United States?

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