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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Revolt Against the Fathers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were Douglas' ideas causing in the Democratic party?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Cohesiveness.
(d) Major rifts.

2. Lincoln wanted to run for a senate seat, but he could not. Why not?
(a) No one wanted to vote for him.
(b) He was a member of the legislature.
(c) He was already a member of the senate.
(d) He was very ill.

3. Lincoln was a member of what political party?
(a) The Whig party.
(b) The Know-Nothing party.
(c) The Green party.
(d) The Democratic party.

4. How did Lincoln feel without Mary?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Content.
(d) Worried.

5. The Republicans held a convention with Lincoln as the keynote speaker, and he gave an hour-and-a-half long impromptu speech. As what is this speech known?
(a) The Best Speech.
(b) The Worst Speech.
(c) The Last Speech.
(d) The Lost Speech.

Short Answer Questions

1. What political party was gaining favor from abolitionists in the North?

2. Lincoln preached what?

3. What bill did Stephen A. Douglas create?

4. What did Lincoln give Mary with the inscription "Love is Eternal?"

5. In October 1839 the Whigs held a convention and endorsed who for President, beginning the so-called Log and Cabin Campaign?

(see the answer key)

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