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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. Slavery had been prohibited in Indiana and Illinois since what year?
(a) 1700.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1787.
(d) 1776.
2. Dred Scott was born a slave in what state?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Louisiana.
3. To what political party did John C. Fremont belong?
(a) The Democratic Party.
(b) The Free Soil Party.
(c) The Whig Party.
(d) The Republican Party.
4. 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 Mississippi Ordinance.
(b) The Northwest Ordinance.
(c) The Oregon Ordinance.
(d) The Western Ordinance.
5. Who was the 12th President of the United States?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) Zachary Taylor.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy, and was operating from the early 1830s to the mid-1850s?
2. What was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections?
3. 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?
4. Pennsylvania passed An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in what year?
5. How many members comprise the U.S. House of Representatives?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where was Lincoln's income mostly derived in the 1840s? What does the author write about Lincoln's profession in Chapter 2?
2. When did Abraham Lincoln first become involved in the abolitionist movement, as discussed in Chapter 1?
3. When and why did the Republican Party emerge in the 1850s? How did Lincoln fit in with the Republicans?
4. What was Lincoln's main aim in criticizing President Polk, as discussed in Chapter 2?
5. Who was John C. Fremont? What relationship did Fremont have with Lincoln?
6. What was significant about the 1856 presidential election for Lincoln's career?
7. What was the focus of Lincoln's speech in October, 1854, as described in Chapter 3?
8. What issues within the abolitionist movement led to new debates at the end of Chapter 4?
9. What factions of the Republican Party did Lincoln clash with regarding the slavery issues in Chapter 3?
10. What influences from Lincoln's childhood does the author attribute to his beliefs about slavery in Chapter 2?
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