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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Illinois had prohibited slavery in its constitution in what year when it was admitted as a state?
(a) 1836.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1832.
(d) 1819.

3. The federal government had prohibited slavery within the Wisconsin Territory in the Missouri Compromise in what year?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1832.
(c) 1836.
(d) 1820.

4. In what year did the United States of America annex the Republic of Texas?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1846.
(d) 1848.

5. When was the Republican Party founded in the United States?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1854.

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

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

8. As they campaigned for the Senate in 1858, Lincoln and his supporters decided to invite who to debate the issues?
(a) Millard Fillmore.
(b) Henry Clay.
(c) Zachary Taylor.
(d) Stephen A. Douglas.

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

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

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

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

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

14. How many members comprise the U.S. House of Representatives?
(a) 522.
(b) 435.
(c) 615.
(d) 120.

15. The Somersett's case in what year emancipated a slave in England and helped launch the movement to abolish slavery?
(a) 1772.
(b) 1745.
(c) 1782.
(d) 1776.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Abraham Lincoln born?

2. What was a minor political party in the United States in the 1840s which was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause?

3. 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?

4. What was the first American political party, from the early 1790s to 1816?

5. When was James Buchanan born?

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