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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who was the 14th President of the United States?
(a) Andrew Jackson.
(b) Zachary Taylor.
(c) Millard Fillmore.
(d) Franklin Pierce.

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

6. Where was Eric Foner born?
(a) New York, NY.
(b) Little Rock, AR.
(c) Akron, OH.
(d) Chicago, IL.

7. There are well documented trips Lincoln made down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in both 1828 and what year?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1840.
(c) 1831.
(d) 1818.

8. In what year did Lincoln deliver a speech against the current president, criticizing his policy regarding Mexico and the struggle that was taking place between the United States and Mexico?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1833.

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

10. What was the first American political party, from the early 1790s to 1816?
(a) The Free Soil Party.
(b) The Federalist Party.
(c) The Whig Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

11. In what state was James K. Polk born?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Louisiana.

12. The Dred Scott ruling was the first time since what case that the Court held an Act of Congress to be unconstitutional?
(a) Marbury v. Madison.
(b) Clay v. Madison.
(c) Anderson v. Harvard.
(d) Smith v. Madison.

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

14. Who was the 13th President of the United States?
(a) Zachary Taylor.
(b) Millard Fillmore.
(c) Henry Clay.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

15. In what year did Dred Scott accompany his owners to Missouri?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1830.

Short Answer Questions

1. Illinois had prohibited slavery in its constitution in what year when it was admitted as a state?

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

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

4. Slavery had been prohibited in Indiana and Illinois since what year?

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

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