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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory?
(a) Congruity.
(b) Sovereignty.
(c) Catalysm.
(d) Union.

2. What was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy, and was operating from the early 1830s to the mid-1850s?
(a) The Republican Party.
(b) The Tea Party.
(c) The Whig Party.
(d) The Democratic Party.

3. What is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives?
(a) Parliament.
(b) Congress.
(c) The Presidential Cabinet.
(d) Judiciary Committee.

4. To what political party did John C. Fremont belong?
(a) The Republican Party.
(b) The Free Soil Party.
(c) The Whig Party.
(d) The Democratic Party.

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

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

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

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

9. When was "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery" selected as the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, Lincoln Prize and the Bancroft Prize?
(a) 2008.
(b) 1998.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2009.

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

11. Where was James Buchanan born?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) New York.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Illinois.

12. 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) 1818.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1865.

13. What was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805 until June 4, 1812?
(a) The Spanish Territory.
(b) The Louisiana Territory.
(c) The Mexican Territory.
(d) The Texas Territory.

14. Dred Scott was born a slave in what state?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Virginia.

15. Who was the eighth President of the United States?
(a) Zachary Taylor.
(b) Martin Van Buren.
(c) John P. Hale.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

Short Answer 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?

2. 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?

3. Who ran for the Free Soil Party in the 1852 presidential election?

4. James K. Polk was which President of the United States?

5. In what year did Abraham Lincoln present his House Divided speech?

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