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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Slavery had been prohibited in Indiana and Illinois since what year?
(a) 1700.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1787.

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

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

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

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

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) 1759.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1848.

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

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

11. When was James Buchanan born?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1791.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1833.

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

13. What is Latin for a statement "said in passing"?
(a) Salovar dictum.
(b) Umber dictum.
(c) Obiter dictum.
(d) Reiter dictum.

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

15. 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) 1865.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1759.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805 until June 4, 1812?

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

3. In 2000, Eric Foner was elected president of what organization?

4. In the 1840s, most of Lincoln's income was derived from what?

5. The Dred Scott ruling was the first time since what case that the Court held an Act of Congress to be unconstitutional?

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