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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was John C. Fremont born?
(a) 1813.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1833.

2. For what state was John C. Fremont a U.S. Senator?
(a) California.
(b) Kansas.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Kentucky.

3. 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 Tea Party.
(b) The Anti-Immigration movement.
(c) The Abolitionist movement.
(d) The Know Nothing movement.

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

5. How many members comprise the U.S. House of Representatives?
(a) 522.
(b) 615.
(c) 120.
(d) 435.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Henry Clay born?

2. When was the author Eric Foner born?

3. When was the Missouri Compromise enacted?

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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