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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 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?
(a) The Whig Party.
(b) The Democratic Party.
(c) The Tea Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

2. Illinois had prohibited slavery in its constitution in what year when it was admitted as a state?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1836.
(d) 1819.

3. How did Abraham Lincoln feel about his father, according to the author?
(a) He resented him.
(b) He worshipped him.
(c) He was inspired by him.
(d) He envied him.

4. James Buchanan was a member of what political party when he was elected U.S. President?
(a) The Republican Party.
(b) The Federalist Party.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The Whig Party.

5. James Buchanan was which President of the United States?
(a) 16th.
(b) 11th.
(c) 12th.
(d) 15th.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Abraham Lincoln present his House Divided speech?

2. What was a minor political party in the United States in the 1840s which was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause?

3. Britain banned the importation of African slaves in its colonies in what year?

4. Where was Eric Foner born?

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

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

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

4. What does the author relate of Lincoln's early childhood in Chapter 1? Where was Lincoln born?

5. When and why did the Republican Party emerge in the 1850s? How did Lincoln fit in with the Republicans?

6. What was the focus of Lincoln's speech in October, 1854, as described in Chapter 3?

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

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

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

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

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