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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Lincoln not free all slaves early in the Civil War?
(a) He did not have the authority to enforce such a proclamation.
(b) He thought it would give the South more support from abroad.
(c) He thought it would let the South play the role of victim.
(d) He did not want the war to be a referendum on slavery.

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

4. What terms did Lincoln offer to the parties Greeley claimed to represent?
(a) Exemption from reparations for those who gave 10% of their income to ex-slaves.
(b) Free passage if they averred the integrity of the Union and the abandonment of slavery.
(c) Return of habeas corpus for those who had been dispossessed.
(d) Free passage if they made an oath of loyalty to the Union.

5. How did Lincoln handle the question of emancipating the slaves?
(a) He kept his feelings to himself.
(b) He waffled on it.
(c) He told each party what they wanted to hear.
(d) He made no question of his opposition to slavery.

6. 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 South might succeed.
(b) The Union loss made people think that the war might go on for a long time.
(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.

7. What criticism was made of the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) That it did not repair the injuries to African societies.
(b) That it did not free slaves in the Confederate states.
(c) That it did not give the slaves enough.
(d) That it did not punish slaveholders enough.

8. What was the public sentiment about the Civil War at the beginning?
(a) They thought that France or Spain would take advantage of the war to assert territorial claims in the Americas.
(b) People thought the South would be beaten quickly.
(c) They thought that it would be a protracted and bloody war.
(d) They thought the South would break away quickly.

9. When did Lincoln present the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet?
(a) October 1863.
(b) September 1862.
(c) July 1863.
(d) April 1863.

10. What shift did Lincoln's letter to Greeley indicate in Lincoln's thinking?
(a) It showed that he was willing to punish the South after all. It showed that he could be influenced by mercantile interests after all.
(b) It showed that he could act to protect mercantile interests after all.
(c) It showed that he was willing to punish the South after all.
(d) It made slavery the purpose of the war after all.

11. Why did Lincoln ultimately appoint Halleck as General-in-Chief?
(a) He was willing to punish the Southern slaveholders.
(b) He was not afraid to use freed slaves in his army.
(c) He was more aggressive than McClellan was.
(d) He was not afraid to use freed slaves in his army.

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

13. How did Lincoln's strategy of appointing cabinet-members get him in trouble?
(a) Rumors started to circulate that he was really affected by only one advisor.
(b) Accusations of corruption were endemic.
(c) No one trusted others enough to work together.
(d) Infighting kept anything from getting done.

14. What does Donald say the Gettysburg Address indicates about Lincoln?
(a) A return to his origins.
(b) A shift in his thinking.
(c) A new insecurity about the validity of the war.
(d) A refusal to adapt to new conditions.

15. What was the occasion for the Gettysburg Address?
(a) The victory at Gettysburg.
(b) The dedication of a cemetery.
(c) Lincoln's passage through Gettysburg.
(d) The loss at Chancellorsville.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How were things going for the Union in 1862?

3. How did Lincoln bolster his support in the North?

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

5. Who was Philip Sheridan?

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