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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Henry Clay represented what state in both the Senate and the House of Representatives?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Louisiana.

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

3. The focus in the 1840s was not the abolition of slavery, but was what?
(a) Agricultural rights.
(b) Curbing the spread of slavery.
(c) Universal health care.
(d) Women's rights.

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

5. What is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives?
(a) Judiciary Committee.
(b) Congress.
(c) Parliament.
(d) The Presidential Cabinet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What political party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the contemporary U.S. political spectrum?

2. When was James K. Polk elected President of the United States?

3. 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?

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

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

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