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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 position was Lincoln offered when he left Washington, DC.?
(a) Director of the Federal Land Office.
(b) Governor of Illinois.
(c) Governor of Oregon.
(d) Vice President.

2. Who was Joshua Speed?
(a) Lincoln's running partner.
(b) A shopkeeper and Lincoln's roommate.
(c) Lincoln's father-in-law.
(d) Lincoln's business partner.

3. Where did Lincoln's law clients come from?
(a) Vandalia.
(b) His hometown.
(c) Springfield.
(d) Local towns in Illinois.

4. What position did Stephen Douglas hold when Lincoln returned to politics?
(a) Judge.
(b) U.S. Senator.
(c) Illinois Governor.
(d) U.S. Representative.

5. How did the war effort affect international relations?
(a) France was sending support to the Confederacy.
(b) While the Civil War raged, Mexico was threatening to retake territories it lost in the Mexican War.
(c) France and Britain complained because they could not get Southern cotton.
(d) With so much attention on the war, the US was losing its trade advantages in Asia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the general in charge of Union troops at the beginning of the Civil War?

2. Who was John Todd Stuart?

3. Whom did Lincoln begin to fight with as he reached adolescence?

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

5. What is considered the most controversial action Lincoln took during the Civil War?

(see the answer key)

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