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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805 until June 4, 1812?
(a) The Mexican Territory.
(b) The Spanish Territory.
(c) The Texas Territory.
(d) The Louisiana Territory.

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

3. When did the the Supreme Court hand down the Dred Scott Decision?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1857.
(d) 1861.

4. In the 1840s, most of Lincoln's income was derived from what?
(a) His medical practice.
(b) His architecture firm.
(c) His law practice.
(d) His farm.

5. Pennsylvania passed An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in what year?
(a) 1780.
(b) 1772.
(c) 1782.
(d) 1759.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When was the Missouri Compromise enacted?

3. Who was the 12th President of the United States?

4. 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?

5. James Buchanan was a member of what political party when he was elected U.S. President?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Abraham Lincoln's most controversial court case discussed in Chapter 2. What was the outcome of the trial?

2. How did Lincoln's political associations change in the 1850s? What party had he been affiliated with?

3. How did the abolitionists go about promoting abolition in the beginning of their movement, as described in Chapter 1?

4. What led to the split in the Democratic Party before the 1860 presidential election? What did Lincoln remark about this split?

5. What was the American Colonization Society, and what did they promote?

6. What influences from Lincoln's childhood does the author attribute to his beliefs about slavery in Chapter 2?

7. What was the central political issue regarding slavery in the 1840s, as discussed in Chapter 2?

8. What was the focus of Lincoln's speech in October, 1854, as described in Chapter 3?

9. What did President Buchanan declare in the wake of the Dred Scott Decision?

10. Where was Lincoln's income mostly derived in the 1840s? What does the author write about Lincoln's profession in Chapter 2?

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