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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Abraham Lincoln when his family moved to Illinois?
(a) 21.
(b) 16.
(c) 18.
(d) 23.

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

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

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

5. The focus in the 1840s was not the abolition of slavery, but was what?
(a) Curbing the spread of slavery.
(b) Agricultural rights.
(c) Universal health care.
(d) Women's rights.

6. 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) Free labor.
(d) Colonialization.

7. To what political party did James K. Polk belong?
(a) The Republican Party.
(b) The Free Soil Party.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The Whig Party.

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

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

10. For what state was John C. Fremont a U.S. Senator?
(a) California.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Kansas.

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

12. When did the Louisiana Purchase take place?
(a) 1811.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1807.
(d) 1833.

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

14. James Buchanan was a member of what political party when he was elected U.S. President?
(a) The Whig Party.
(b) The Federalist Party.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States with the primary effect being the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States?

2. Where was James Buchanan born?

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

4. 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?

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

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