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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lincoln mean by the phrase "cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason"?
(a) How money should be allocated to different causes.
(b) How the benefits of taking land from Indians should be weighed.
(c) How leaders should make decisions.
(d) How men should enter marriage.

2. What happened to Lincoln's career after the 1858 election?
(a) He declined to enter into national politics until the Illinois state Republican Party was unified.
(b) He was invited to serve as a diplomat to France.
(c) He began to enjoy a reputation outside of Illinois.
(d) He was abandoned by the Republican Party.

3. Where was Lincoln's law firm based?
(a) Hampton County.
(b) Logan County.
(c) Sangamon County.
(d) Menard County.

4. What did Lincoln advocate in his inauguration address?
(a) Declaring war on the South.
(b) Reducing the tension over slavery.
(c) Compelling the South to return to the Union.
(d) Preserving the Union.

5. What was Lincoln's view of his role in the Civil War?
(a) He was messianic.
(b) He was fatalistic.
(c) He was indifferent.
(d) He was megalomaniacal.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Lincoln get involved with the Republican Party?

2. What were the border states afraid of?

3. How did Lincoln campaign for President?

4. In what war had the 1848 Whig party candidate served?

5. For whose nomination for President did Lincoln campaign?

(see the answer key)

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