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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Dred Scott Decision was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants) were what?
(a) Free to vote.
(b) Protected by the Constitution.
(c) Not protected by the Constitution.
(d) Freed men.

2. When was the Missouri Compromise enacted?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1820.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1833.

3. Who ran for the Free Soil Party in the 1852 presidential election?
(a) Zachary Taylor.
(b) Martin Van Buren.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) John P. Hale.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In what year did Dred Scott accompany his owners to Missouri?

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

5. James K. Polk was born in what year?

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