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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year did Abraham Lincoln present his House Divided speech?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1820.

3. 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) Fugitive slave laws.
(c) The Black Codes.
(d) Confiscation laws.

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

5. 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) Labor unions.
(c) Colonialization.
(d) Free labor.

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

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

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

9. Pennsylvania passed An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in what year?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1772.
(c) 1780.
(d) 1782.

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

11. What does GOP stand for?
(a) Grand Organization of Plenty.
(b) Great Old Politics.
(c) Governor of Politics.
(d) Grand Old Party.

12. Abraham Lincoln's wife was the daughter of a what?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Banker.
(c) Painter.
(d) Actor.

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

14. What was a minor political party in the United States in the 1840s which was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause?
(a) The Whig Party.
(b) The Free Soil Party.
(c) The Green Party.
(d) The Liberty Party.

15. What was the name of John C. Fremont's mother?
(a) Anne Jefferson Smith.
(b) Sarah Elizabeth Newton.
(c) Anne Beverly Whiting.
(d) Elizabeth Anderson.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was James Buchanan born?

3. Where did Lincoln make a speech in Springfield that included a discussion on the violence that surrounded the abolitionist movement in Chapter 1?

4. What refers to the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory?

5. Who was the 12th President of the United States?

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