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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1840s and 1850s, and was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants?
(a) The Anti-Immigration movement.
(b) The Tea Party.
(c) The Abolitionist movement.
(d) The Know Nothing movement.

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

3. Who was the 14th President of the United States?
(a) Franklin Pierce.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) Millard Fillmore.
(d) Zachary Taylor.

4. In the 1840s, Lincoln helped represent a slave owner whose slave and four children claimed to be free when the owner transported them from where into Illinois?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Missouri.
(d) Kentucky.

5. Where did Lincoln give a speech during the 1860 presidential campaign in which he stated that the Republicans did not want to change slavery in states where it already existed, but only wanted to stop it from expanding?
(a) The U.S. State House.
(b) Penn State.
(c) New York University.
(d) The Cooper Institute.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What refers to the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or especially a political entity?

3. 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?

4. What was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States with the primary effect being the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States?

5. In what year did Dred Scott accompany his owners to Missouri?

(see the answer key)

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