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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would doom African American slaves according to "Public Sentiment"?

2. What did Lincoln urge Congress NOT to do in "The Tug Has to Come"?

3. When did Mary Todd and Lincoln reconcile?

4. Who did Lincoln write "I Like the Letters Very Much" for?

5. When was the sketch in the "Prologue" written?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lincoln write in 1832 according to '"Peculiar Ambition"?

2. What did Lincoln want John Fremont to modify?

3. What did the South do after Lincoln's election in "The Perpetuity of Popular Government"?

4. What did Lincoln confess to Senator Lyman Trumbull?

5. How did Lincoln hone his argument by the sixth debate in Illinois in 1858?

6. What does Lincoln state about a house?

7. What kind of existence did Lincoln's family lead?

8. What policies does Lincoln advocate in his letter to the editor of the Sangamo Journal in 1836?

9. What does Lincoln contrast the "mud-sill" theory with?

10. What is the legitimate object of government according to Lincoln in "Half Slave and Half Free"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the significance of the Douglas-Lincoln debate and how Lincoln used these debates to hone his rhetoric against Douglas and the pro-slavery stance.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the meaning and impact of the Emancipation Proclamation and Lincoln's decision to issue the proclamation.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Lincoln's election affected the South's decision to secede.

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