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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Lincoln waiting for before making the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) Slave revolts.
(b) Southern surrender.
(c) Desperation in the South.
(d) A Union victory.

2. Who was Lincoln's chief opponent for the nomination for President in 1864?
(a) General Meade.
(b) Salmon Chase.
(c) Jefferson Davies.
(d) General Burnside.

3. What was McClellan's feeling about the President and Congress?
(a) He was disgusted by civilian leadership.
(b) He distrusted them.
(c) He was afraid of them.
(d) He was cowed by them.

4. What was Lincoln's relationship with McClellan through 1862?
(a) McClellan was incompetent but blamed his failures on Lincoln.
(b) Lincoln gave McClellan mixed messages about winning the war but being easy on the South.
(c) McClellan followed Lincoln's orders, but not always with success.
(d) McClellan would not follow Lincoln's orders.

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

6. How did Lincoln appease the border states?
(a) By moving the fighting to the south.
(b) By separating abolition from the war for the Union.
(c) By moving the fighting to the North.
(d) By taking more recruits from the north.

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

8. How did the first major engagement with Southern troops change the public view of the war?
(a) The Union loss made people think that the war might go on for a long time.
(b) The Union loss made people think that the South might succeed.
(c) The Southern loss made people think that the war would be over quickly.
(d) The stalemate made people think that the war might go on for a long time.

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

10. Who replaced General Burnside?
(a) General Halleck.
(b) General Hooker.
(c) General Brown.
(d) General Grant.

11. What tragedy did Lincoln suffer early in the Civil War?
(a) His wife died.
(b) His son died.
(c) His father died.
(d) His mother died.

12. What document justified the controversial step Lincoln took during the Civil War?
(a) The Declaration of Independence.
(b) The Constitution.
(c) The Articles of Confederation.
(d) None of the answers is correct.

13. How did the Civil War progress after initial Union losses?
(a) Union troops suffered one disaster after another.
(b) Union troops began to win battles.
(c) Southern troops began to falter for lack of supplies.
(d) Union troops languished for lack of supplies.

14. With whom did Lincoln ultimately replace McClellan?
(a) Hooker.
(b) Meade.
(c) Halleck.
(d) Grant.

15. What happened to Lincoln's support at the beginning of the Civil War?
(a) It fragmented once the fighting actually started.
(b) It softened with the first Union losses.
(c) It stiffened as the war promised to last a long time.
(d) It came together as people started to realize what the war would require.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Congress handle the crisis with the British?

2. Why did Lincoln replace General Burnside?

3. What condition did Lincoln propose to impose on states that wanted to rejoin the union?

4. What were the border states afraid of?

5. What changed when Lincoln replaced General Hooker with General Meade?

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