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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. The Somersett's case in what year emancipated a slave in England and helped launch the movement to abolish slavery?
(a) 1772.
(b) 1745.
(c) 1782.
(d) 1776.

5. Abraham Lincoln's wife was the daughter of a what?
(a) Banker.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Painter.
(d) Actor.

6. Britain abolished slavery throughout the British Empire with the Slavery Abolition Act in what year?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1782.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1807.

7. Britain banned the importation of African slaves in its colonies in what year?
(a) 1772.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1807.
(d) 1782.

8. 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 Tea Party.
(c) The Whig Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

9. What temporarily neutralized the issue of slavery and undercut the Free Soil Party's no-compromise position?
(a) The Compromise of 1812.
(b) The Compromise of 1961.
(c) The Compromise of 1850.
(d) The Compromise of 1840.

10. The Whig party began to fracture in the early part of what decade?
(a) 1803s.
(b) 1850s.
(c) 1860s.
(d) 1840s.

11. In 2000, Eric Foner was elected president of what organization?
(a) The Chicago Historical Association.
(b) The Pennsylvania Historical Association.
(c) The American Historical Association.
(d) The Historical Association of New Hampshire.

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

13. 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) Protected by the Constitution.
(b) Not protected by the Constitution.
(c) Free to vote.
(d) Freed men.

14. How old was Abraham Lincoln when his family moved to Illinois?
(a) 21.
(b) 16.
(c) 18.
(d) 23.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the author Eric Foner born?

2. What was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States with the primary effect being the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States?

3. In what state was James K. Polk born?

4. What was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections?

5. In what year did Abraham Lincoln present his House Divided speech?

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