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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Republican Party founded on?
(a) Opposition to Women's Suffrage.
(b) Opposition to slavery.
(c) Opposition to the Gold Standard.
(d) Opposition to popular sovereignty.

2. 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) British aid was intercepted by the South.
(d) Two Confederate officers were seized from a British ship.

3. When does Donald say was the low point for Lincoln's administration?
(a) Late 1863.
(b) Mid-1863.
(c) Early 1863.
(d) Late 1862.

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

5. Who was Hannibal Hamlin?
(a) Lincoln's running mate.
(b) The Democratic nominee for President.
(c) Lincoln's opponent.
(d) The head of the Illinois Republican Party.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Lincoln present the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet?

2. How did Lincoln respond to the controversies surrounding him?

3. What position was Lincoln offered when he left Washington, DC.?

4. What technological development allowed Lincoln to be home on the weekends?

5. What effect did slavery have on politics in the 1850s?

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