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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What repelled the Missouri Compromise and gave the right of the citizens of new territories to choose whether they entered the Union as a slave or free state?
(a) The Louisiana Act.
(b) The Nebraska-Oregon Act.
(c) The Nebraska-Ohio Act.
(d) The Kansas-Nebraska Act .

2. What were cheap, tabloid-style papers produced in the middle of the 19th century?
(a) Nickel press newspapers.
(b) Pulp fiction.
(c) Penny press newspapers.
(d) Free newspapers.

3. When was Abraham Lincoln born?
(a) 1809.
(b) 1825.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1814.

4. Abraham Lincoln was a member of what political party from the early part of his career until the 1850s?
(a) The Whig Party.
(b) The Free Soil Party.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

5. To what state did Abraham Lincoln's family move when he was seven years old?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Indiana.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Kentucky.

6. How did Abraham Lincoln feel about his father, according to the author?
(a) He was inspired by him.
(b) He resented him.
(c) He envied him.
(d) He worshipped him.

7. 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) Kentucky.
(b) Kansas.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Missouri.

8. Where was Abraham Lincoln born?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Illinois.

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

10. In what year did Lincoln give a speech denouncing America's new policy regarding slavery in new western territories, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1759.

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

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

13. The Somersett's case in what year emancipated a slave in England and helped launch the movement to abolish slavery?
(a) 1782.
(b) 1772.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1745.

14. Who was the 12th President of the United States?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Henry Clay.
(c) Zachary Taylor.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

15. The focus in the 1840s was not the abolition of slavery, but was what?
(a) Agricultural rights.
(b) Universal health care.
(c) Women's rights.
(d) Curbing the spread of slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. James Buchanan was a member of what political party when he was elected U.S. President?

2. When was the author Eric Foner born?

3. In what year did Abraham Lincoln assume the Presidency of the United States?

4. In what year did U.S. Army Major John Emerson purchase Dred Scott?

5. When was the Missouri Compromise enacted?

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