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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. Eric Foner has been a member of the faculty of the Department of History at what university since 1982?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Princeton University.

2. The federal government had prohibited slavery within the Wisconsin Territory in the Missouri Compromise in what year?
(a) 1820.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1832.
(d) 1836.

3. James K. Polk was which President of the United States?
(a) 12th.
(b) 10th.
(c) 11th.
(d) 13th.

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

5. In what year did Dred Scott accompany his owners to Missouri?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1833.

Short Answer Questions

1. James K. Polk was born in what year?

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

3. In 2000, Eric Foner was elected president of what organization?

4. In the late 1850s, Lincoln argued that what would be much more profitable if brought to the South because the workers would much better motivated to work if they were promised wages at the end of the day?

5. When was Abraham Lincoln 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 contact with slavery did Lincoln have in his youth, as discussed in Chapter 1?

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

4. Who was John C. Fremont? What relationship did Fremont have with Lincoln?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What led to the debates between Lincoln and Douglas in Chapter 4? What was their impact?

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