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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) Free newspapers.
(b) Pulp fiction.
(c) Nickel press newspapers.
(d) Penny press newspapers.

2. In what state was James K. Polk born?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Kentucky.

3. When was "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery" selected as the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, Lincoln Prize and the Bancroft Prize?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2011.
(c) 1998.
(d) 2008.

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. Eric Foner has been a member of the faculty of the Department of History at what university since 1982?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Harvard University.

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

7. What American political party was founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854?
(a) The Tea Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

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

9. What was the first American political party, from the early 1790s to 1816?
(a) The Republican Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Free Soil Party.
(d) The Federalist Party.

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

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

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

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

14. When was the Republican Party founded in the United States?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1854.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Pennsylvania passed An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in what year?

2. Eric Foner won the Bancroft Prize in 1989 for what book?

3. When was James Buchanan born?

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

5. In what year did Lincoln give a speech denouncing America's new policy regarding slavery in new western territories, as described in Chapter 3?

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