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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what state was James K. Polk born?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Louisiana.

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) 1833.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1759.

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

4. What is the framework for the organization of the United States government and for the relationship of the federal government with the states, citizens, and all people within the United States?
(a) The Bill of Rights.
(b) The Ten Commandments.
(c) The Constitution.
(d) The Ten Amendments.

5. 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?
(a) The Nebraska-Ohio Act.
(b) The Nebraska-Oregon Act.
(c) The Kansas-Nebraska Act .
(d) The Louisiana Act.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eric Foner won the Bancroft Prize in 1989 for what book?

2. How many members comprise the U.S. House of Representatives?

3. As they campaigned for the Senate in 1858, Lincoln and his supporters decided to invite who to debate the issues?

4. In what year did Abraham Lincoln assume the Presidency of the United States?

5. What were cheap, tabloid-style papers produced in the middle of the 19th century?

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