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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In what year did Abraham Lincoln assume the Presidency of the United States?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1856.
2. The focus in the 1840s was not the abolition of slavery, but was what?
(a) Curbing the spread of slavery.
(b) Universal health care.
(c) Women's rights.
(d) Agricultural rights.
3. 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 Constitution.
(b) The Bill of Rights.
(c) The Ten Amendments.
(d) The Ten Commandments.
4. 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 Whig Party.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The Tea Party.
5. 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?
(a) The Northwest Ordinance.
(b) The Mississippi Ordinance.
(c) The Oregon Ordinance.
(d) The Western Ordinance.
Short Answer Questions
1. To what political party did John C. Fremont belong?
2. When was the author Eric Foner born?
3. In the wake of the Dred Scot decision, President Buchanan declared that slavery existed in all states under the Constitution and tried to bring what state in as a slave state?
4. Dred Scott was born a slave in what state?
5. The Dred Scott ruling was the first time since what case that the Court held an Act of Congress to be unconstitutional?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the global and national status of slavery during the late 1700s and early 1800s?
2. Describe Abraham Lincoln's most controversial court case discussed in Chapter 2. What was the outcome of the trial?
3. What led to the debates between Lincoln and Douglas in Chapter 4? What was their impact?
4. What was Lincoln's political involvement during the late 1840s? What notable speech did Lincoln give at this time?
5. Where was Lincoln's income mostly derived in the 1840s? What does the author write about Lincoln's profession in Chapter 2?
6. Who was John C. Fremont? What relationship did Fremont have with Lincoln?
7. What did Lincoln argue regarding free labor in the South, as described in Chapter 4?
8. What intention does the author state in the Preface of "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery"?
9. What contact with slavery did Lincoln have in his youth, as discussed in Chapter 1?
10. What is ironic about Abraham Lincoln's stance on slavery during the 1856 presidential elections, as discussed in Chapter 3?
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