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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Lincoln view the Battle of Antietam?
(a) As an indication of fate with regard to the Union.
(b) As an indication of divine will about emancipation.
(c) As an indicator of whose strategies were superior.
(d) As an indication of which army was ultimately superior.

2. What was the new name of the Republican Party?
(a) The American Party.
(b) The Unity Party.
(c) The Reunited Party.
(d) The Union Party.

3. What technological development allowed Lincoln to be home on the weekends?
(a) The telegraph.
(b) The telephone.
(c) The automobile.
(d) The steam engine

4. In what war had the 1848 Whig party candidate served?
(a) The Revolutionary War.
(b) The War of 1812.
(c) The Mexican War.
(d) The Indian Wars.

5. What condition did Lincoln propose to impose on states that wanted to rejoin the union?
(a) States had to renounce their secession and repay the North for their war costs.
(b) Governors had to be appointed by Lincoln himself.
(c) State governments had to be run by men who had taken an oath of loyalty to the country.
(d) States had to free their slaves and demonstrate integration of black and white cultures.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Describe Lincoln's two children.

3. What did the Battle of Antietam indicate for Lincoln?

4. Who was Mary Owens?

5. What did Lincoln believe he inherited from his grandmother?

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