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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Nine: The New Reckoning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What bill did Stephen A. Douglas create?
(a) The Kansas-Nebraska Bill.
(b) The Kansas Bill.
(c) The Missouri Bill.
(d) The Nebraska Bill.

2. How did Lincoln feel about this scandal?
(a) Worried.
(b) Ashamed.
(c) Angry.
(d) Happy.

3. The public was clamoring for a battle to take place, so Lincoln called Generals Scott and McDowell to discuss what?
(a) Winter offensives.
(b) Summer offensives.
(c) Spring offensives.
(d) Fall offensives.

4. In January __________, a Lincoln campaign for Presidential candidacy was officially underway.
(a) 1858.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1857.

5. Who was Lincoln's Attorney General?
(a) Edward Bates.
(b) Montgomery Blair.
(c) James Speed.
(d) William Dennison.

Short Answer Questions

1. The bill sparked what debates?

2. What had been made practically obsolete by this bill?

3. Colonel Robert E. Lee was sent into the fray to put the rebellion down, and the incident was branded by Southerners as what?

4. Where had a civil war begun?

5. How did many free-soilers feel about the Kansas-Nebraska Bill?

(see the answer key)

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