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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. In January __________, a Lincoln campaign for Presidential candidacy was officially underway.

2. What did this bill state?

3. The Presidential campaign of 1856 elected who?

4. Describe Thomas Lincoln.

5. He entered into a law practice with John Todd Stuart, and won his first court case. What type of case was this?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did free-soilers think about the Kansas-Nebraska Bill? Why?

2. What political party did Lincoln join? Who were their rivals?

3. What was the Dred Scott decision?

4. Who were Abraham Lincoln's parents?

5. What children were born amid these deaths?

6. How did the Republicans want Lincoln to pin down Douglas?

7. What might have begun Lincoln's fascination with madness?

8. What was significant about Kansas' rejection of the LeCompton Constitution?

9. What did the bill spark?

10. Describe the political environment at this time. What did this mean for the Whigs?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lincoln was assassinated on April 14th.

Part 1) How did Lincoln's decisions throughout his Presidency affect John Wilkes Booth? What did Booth think he would accomplish by killing Lincoln?

Part 2) How was his assassination foreshadowed? What is ironic about his assassination?

Part 3) How did Lincoln's assassination affect the country? How might Lincoln's death have also been beneficial to the Union?

Essay Topic 2

Sherman burns cities in the South.

Part 1) What is the reason for this strategy? Is it effective? Why or why not?

Part 2) How does Sherman compare to other military leaders in the Civil War? How necessary is he to the Union? Explain.

Part 3) Should Sherman have burned cities in the south? Why or why not? How has this destruction affected the South? How is this destruction still seen today?

Essay Topic 3

Lincoln makes plans for emancipation.

Part 1) What is emancipation? How does he make plans for emancipation? How do others influence his plans?

Part 2) What role does the Civil War play in the ability for emancipation to occur? What do others think about Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation? Why?

Part 3) Could the North have won the war without the emancipation? Why or why not?

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