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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. When was Henry Clay born?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1777.
2. 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 Western Ordinance.
(b) The Northwest Ordinance.
(c) The Oregon Ordinance.
(d) The Mississippi Ordinance.
3. In what year did the United States of America annex the Republic of Texas?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1846.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1848.
4. In what year did Abraham Lincoln present his House Divided speech?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1820.
(d) 1833.
5. What refers to the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory?
(a) Union.
(b) Sovereignty.
(c) Congruity.
(d) Catalysm.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where was Abraham Lincoln born?
2. What was the 19th century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent?
3. What was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections?
4. What does GOP stand for?
5. There are well documented trips Lincoln made down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in both 1828 and what year?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the central political issue regarding slavery in the 1840s, as discussed in Chapter 2?
2. What intention does the author state in the Preface of "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery"?
3. How did the abolitionists go about promoting abolition in the beginning of their movement, as described in Chapter 1?
4. What issues within the abolitionist movement led to new debates at the end of Chapter 4?
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 was the American Colonization Society, and what did they promote?
8. What led to the debates between Lincoln and Douglas in Chapter 4? What was their impact?
9. What factions of the Republican Party did Lincoln clash with regarding the slavery issues in Chapter 3?
10. What was the global and national status of slavery during the late 1700s and early 1800s?
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