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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What refers to a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself or one's group?
(a) Insurrection.
(b) Tabloid.
(c) Publication.
(d) Propaganda.

4. In the 1840s, most of Lincoln's income was derived from what?
(a) His law practice.
(b) His architecture firm.
(c) His farm.
(d) His medical practice.

5. When was Abraham Lincoln born?
(a) 1814.
(b) 1825.
(c) 1809.
(d) 1800.

6. When did the Mexican-American War end?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1846.
(d) 1833.

7. Abraham Lincoln was a member of what political party from the early part of his career until the 1850s?
(a) The Free Soil Party.
(b) The Republican Party.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The Whig Party.

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

9. 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) Confiscation laws.
(b) Fugitive slave laws.
(c) The Black Codes.
(d) The Border Laws.

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

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

12. Eric Foner has been a member of the faculty of the Department of History at what university since 1982?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Princeton University.

13. When was Henry Clay born?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1777.

14. Spain enacted the first European law abolishing colonial slavery in what year?
(a) 1754.
(b) 1542.
(c) 1598.
(d) 1759.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. James Buchanan was a member of what political party when he was elected U.S. President?

2. When did the Mexican-American War begin?

3. When was James K. Polk elected President of the United States?

4. What temporarily neutralized the issue of slavery and undercut the Free Soil Party's no-compromise position?

5. Where was James Buchanan born?

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