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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. James K. Polk was born in what year?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1795.

2. Dred Scott was born a slave in what state?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Arkansas.

3. In what year did Abraham Lincoln present his House Divided speech?
(a) 1820.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1833.

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

5. When did the the Supreme Court hand down the Dred Scott Decision?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1857.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were cheap, tabloid-style papers produced in the middle of the 19th century?

2. The federal government had prohibited slavery within the Wisconsin Territory in the Missouri Compromise in what year?

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?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the abolitionist movement evolve during Taylor's presidency, as discussed in Chapter 2?

2. What influences from Lincoln's childhood does the author attribute to his beliefs about slavery in Chapter 2?

3. What issues within the abolitionist movement led to new debates at the end of Chapter 4?

4. What led to the split in the Democratic Party before the 1860 presidential election? What did Lincoln remark about this split?

5. How did the abolitionists go about promoting abolition in the beginning of their movement, as described in Chapter 1?

6. When did Abraham Lincoln first become involved in the abolitionist movement, as discussed in Chapter 1?

7. What was the central political issue regarding slavery in the 1840s, as discussed in Chapter 2?

8. What was significant about the 1856 presidential election for Lincoln's career?

9. Where was Lincoln's income mostly derived in the 1840s? What does the author write about Lincoln's profession in Chapter 2?

10. What was the American Colonization Society, and what did they promote?

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