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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to complicate U.S. relations with Britain?
(a) British merchants wanted to help the Confederacy.
(b) Some northerners wanted to help the South through the British.
(c) Two Confederate officers were seized from a British ship.
(d) British aid was intercepted by the South.

2. What effect did slavery have on politics in the 1850s?
(a) It divided people within political parties into fractious groups.
(b) It muddied the issue of Indian removal.
(c) It brought people of different political parties together.
(d) It confused the issues of popular sovereignty and federal authority.

3. What changed when Lincoln replaced General Hooker with General Meade?
(a) The Union troops acted less effectively in battle.
(b) Public opinion swung around sharply.
(c) Union losses declined steeply.
(d) The Union troops repulsed the Confederate troops.

4. What image did Lincoln's advisers associate him with in his 1860 campaign?
(a) A stone wall.
(b) A fence rail.
(c) An old warhorse.
(d) A cherry tree.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What shift did Lincoln's letter to Greeley indicate in Lincoln's thinking?

2. How were U.S. Senators elected in the 1850s?

3. Why did Lincoln have to hand over his earnings to his father?

4. What was Lincoln's relationship with McClellan through 1862?

5. What did Lincoln do in order to escape the hard work his father had done?

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