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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Abraham Lincoln when his family moved to Illinois?
(a) 23.
(b) 16.
(c) 18.
(d) 21.

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

3. When did the the Supreme Court hand down the Dred Scott Decision?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1759.

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

5. What was the 19th century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent?
(a) Sovereign Duty.
(b) Colonialism.
(c) Manifest Destiny.
(d) Congressional Duty.

6. 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?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Kansas.

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

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

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

10. When was John C. Fremont born?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1813.

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

12. In the late 1850s, Lincoln argued that what would be much more profitable if brought to the South because the workers would much better motivated to work if they were promised wages at the end of the day?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Colonialization.
(c) Free labor.
(d) Labor unions.

13. What temporarily neutralized the issue of slavery and undercut the Free Soil Party's no-compromise position?
(a) The Compromise of 1961.
(b) The Compromise of 1850.
(c) The Compromise of 1840.
(d) The Compromise of 1812.

14. 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) The Border Laws.
(b) The Black Codes.
(c) Confiscation laws.
(d) Fugitive slave laws.

15. What American political party was founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854?
(a) The Republican Party.
(b) The Tea Party.
(c) The Whig Party.
(d) The Democratic Party.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was James Buchanan born?

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

4. When was the Wisconsin Enabling Act enacted?

5. Eric Foner has been a member of the faculty of the Department of History at what university since 1982?

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