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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the framework for the organization of the United States government and for the relationship of the federal government with the states, citizens, and all people within the United States?
(a) The Bill of Rights.
(b) The Ten Commandments.
(c) The Ten Amendments.
(d) The Constitution.

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

3. What political party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the contemporary U.S. political spectrum?
(a) The Republican Party.
(b) The Tea Party.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The Whig Party.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. The Opinion of the Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford was written by what U.S. Chief Justice?
(a) Zachary Taylor.
(b) Henry Clay.
(c) Roger B. Taney.
(d) Millard Fillmore.

11. Who ran for the Free Soil Party in the 1852 presidential election?
(a) Zachary Taylor.
(b) Martin Van Buren.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) John P. Hale.

12. What was the first American political party, from the early 1790s to 1816?
(a) The Whig Party.
(b) The Federalist Party.
(c) The Free Soil Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

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

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

15. 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) Publication.
(c) Propaganda.
(d) Tabloid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the 14th President of the United States?

2. 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?

3. What American political party was founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854?

4. In what state was James K. Polk born?

5. Where did Lincoln make a speech in Springfield that included a discussion on the violence that surrounded the abolitionist movement in Chapter 1?

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