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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. How many members comprise the U.S. House of Representatives?
(a) 435.
(b) 615.
(c) 522.
(d) 120.
2. When was James Buchanan born?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1791.
(d) 1759.
3. In the wake of the Dred Scot decision, President Buchanan declared that slavery existed in all states under the Constitution and tried to bring what state in as a slave state?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Kansas.
4. In what year did Abraham Lincoln present his House Divided speech?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1820.
(d) 1833.
5. To what political party did John C. Fremont belong?
(a) The Republican Party.
(b) The Free Soil Party.
(c) The Whig Party.
(d) The Democratic Party.
Short Answer Questions
1. For what state was John C. Fremont a U.S. Senator?
2. Spain enacted the first European law abolishing colonial slavery in what year?
3. What temporarily neutralized the issue of slavery and undercut the Free Soil Party's no-compromise position?
4. How did Abraham Lincoln feel about his father, according to the author?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What factions of the Republican Party did Lincoln clash with regarding the slavery issues in Chapter 3?
2. When and why did the Republican Party emerge in the 1850s? How did Lincoln fit in with the Republicans?
3. What was the global and national status of slavery during the late 1700s and early 1800s?
4. Describe Abraham Lincoln's most controversial court case discussed in Chapter 2. What was the outcome of the trial?
5. When was the Dred Scott Decision handed down from the Supreme Court? What did it declare?
6. What did Lincoln argue regarding free labor in the South, as described in Chapter 4?
7. When did Abraham Lincoln first become involved in the abolitionist movement, as discussed in Chapter 1?
8. How did the abolitionists go about promoting abolition in the beginning of their movement, as described in Chapter 1?
9. What does the author relate of Lincoln's early childhood in Chapter 1? Where was Lincoln born?
10. What intention does the author state in the Preface of "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery"?
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