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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory?
(a) Confiscation laws.
(b) The Border Laws.
(c) The Black Codes.
(d) Fugitive slave laws.

2. To what political party did James K. Polk belong?
(a) The Republican Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Free Soil Party.
(d) The Democratic Party.

3. 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?
(a) The Republican Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Tea Party.
(d) The Democratic Party.

4. Where did Lincoln make a speech in Springfield that included a discussion on the violence that surrounded the abolitionist movement in Chapter 1?
(a) The Philadelphia Museum.
(b) The New York Museum.
(c) The Center for Policy.
(d) The Young Men's Lyceum.

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 Louisiana Act.
(c) The Kansas-Nebraska Act .
(d) The Nebraska-Oregon Act.

Short Answer Questions

1. There are well documented trips Lincoln made down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in both 1828 and what year?

2. When did the the Supreme Court hand down the Dred Scott Decision?

3. The Somersett's case in what year emancipated a slave in England and helped launch the movement to abolish slavery?

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

5. In what year did U.S. Army Major John Emerson purchase Dred Scott?

(see the answer key)

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