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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 won the Bancroft Prize in 1989 for what book?
(a) America's Black Past: A Reader in Afro-American History.
(b) The Story of American Freedom.
(c) A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln.
(d) Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877.

2. In what year did Lincoln deliver a speech against the current president, criticizing his policy regarding Mexico and the struggle that was taking place between the United States and Mexico?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1848.

3. When did the Mexican-American War end?
(a) 1846.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1865.

4. Pennsylvania passed An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in what year?
(a) 1780.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1772.
(d) 1782.

5. What was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805 until June 4, 1812?
(a) The Spanish Territory.
(b) The Louisiana Territory.
(c) The Mexican Territory.
(d) The Texas Territory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the eighth President of the United States?

2. 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?

3. What was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections?

4. The Dred Scott ruling was the first time since what case that the Court held an Act of Congress to be unconstitutional?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When was the Dred Scott Decision handed down from the Supreme Court? What did it declare?

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

5. What did President Buchanan declare in the wake of the Dred Scott Decision?

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

7. What laws prevented equality between states of the North and South, as discussed in Chapter 1?

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

9. Describe Abraham Lincoln's most controversial court case discussed in Chapter 2. What was the outcome of the trial?

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

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