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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were cheap, tabloid-style papers produced in the middle of the 19th century?
(a) Pulp fiction.
(b) Nickel press newspapers.
(c) Free newspapers.
(d) Penny press newspapers.

2. When was the Wisconsin Enabling Act enacted?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1820.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1836.

3. The Opinion of the Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford was written by what U.S. Chief Justice?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) Roger B. Taney.
(c) Millard Fillmore.
(d) Zachary Taylor.

4. When did the Louisiana Purchase take place?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1807.
(c) 1803.
(d) 1811.

5. How did Abraham Lincoln feel about his father, according to the author?
(a) He worshipped him.
(b) He resented him.
(c) He envied him.
(d) He was inspired by him.

6. As they campaigned for the Senate in 1858, Lincoln and his supporters decided to invite who to debate the issues?
(a) Stephen A. Douglas.
(b) Millard Fillmore.
(c) Zachary Taylor.
(d) Henry Clay.

7. 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 Ten Commandments.
(b) The Constitution.
(c) The Ten Amendments.
(d) The Bill of Rights.

8. 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) The Border Laws.
(b) Confiscation laws.
(c) Fugitive slave laws.
(d) The Black Codes.

9. 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 Democratic Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Republican Party.
(d) The Tea Party.

10. The Dred Scott ruling was the first time since what case that the Court held an Act of Congress to be unconstitutional?
(a) Marbury v. Madison.
(b) Smith v. Madison.
(c) Anderson v. Harvard.
(d) Clay v. Madison.

11. What was the 19th century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent?
(a) Manifest Destiny.
(b) Colonialism.
(c) Sovereign Duty.
(d) Congressional Duty.

12. 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.

13. When was the author Eric Foner born?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1935.

14. To what state did Abraham Lincoln's family move when he was seven years old?
(a) Indiana.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Pennsylvania.

15. Abraham Lincoln was a member of what political party from the early part of his career until the 1850s?
(a) The Democratic Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Free Soil Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What temporarily neutralized the issue of slavery and undercut the Free Soil Party's no-compromise position?

3. In what year did the United States of America annex the Republic of Texas?

4. For what state was John C. Fremont a U.S. Senator?

5. In 2000, Eric Foner was elected president of what organization?

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