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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Abraham Lincoln born?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1809.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1814.

2. What was the name of Abraham Lincoln's wife?
(a) Sarah Todd Lincoln.
(b) Elizabeth Lee Lincoln.
(c) Mary Todd Lincoln.
(d) Mary Elizabeth Lincoln.

3. In the late 1850s, Lincoln argued that what would be much more profitable if brought to the South because the workers would much better motivated to work if they were promised wages at the end of the day?
(a) Labor unions.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Colonialization.
(d) Free labor.

4. Who was the 13th President of the United States?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) Zachary Taylor.
(c) Millard Fillmore.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

5. Dred Scott was born a slave in what state?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Henry Clay represented what state in both the Senate and the House of Representatives?

2. The Opinion of the Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford was written by what U.S. Chief Justice?

3. Britain abolished slavery throughout the British Empire with the Slavery Abolition Act in what year?

4. When did the Mexican-American War begin?

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

(see the answer key)

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