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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. What repelled the Missouri Compromise and gave the right of the citizens of new territories to choose whether they entered the Union as a slave or free state?
(a) The Nebraska-Oregon Act.
(b) The Kansas-Nebraska Act .
(c) The Nebraska-Ohio Act.
(d) The Louisiana Act.

2. When was the Wisconsin Enabling Act enacted?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1836.
(c) 1820.
(d) 1848.

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

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

5. In what state was James K. Polk born?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Kentucky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives?

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

5. When was John C. Fremont born?

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. What laws prevented equality between states of the North and South, 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. Who was Henry Clay? What beliefs did Clay hold regarding slavery?

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

6. What was the global and national status of slavery during the late 1700s and early 1800s?

7. How did Lincoln's political associations change in the 1850s? What party had he been affiliated with?

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

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

10. What did Lincoln argue regarding free labor in the South, as described in Chapter 4?

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