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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Lincoln participate in the 1862 elections?
(a) He brought out crowds wherever he went, and he threw their support behind Republican Party candidates.
(b) He ran the war from his campaign stops.
(c) He did not campaign for Republican Party candidates.
(d) He helped Republican Party candidates raise money.

2. What danger did the Confederate troops pose in summer 1864?
(a) They were on the outskirts of New York.
(b) They were at the edge of defeat.
(c) Washington, DC was in danger.
(d) They were reduced to roving bands.

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

4. What impressed Lincoln enough that he appointed Grant to control Union forces against the South?
(a) Grant's success in minor engagements.
(b) Grant's reputation as an aggressive and merciless general.
(c) Grant's powerful supporters in Congress.
(d) Grant's success in the west.

5. Who was the general in charge of Union troops at the beginning of the Civil War?
(a) Lee.
(b) Thomas.
(c) McClellan.
(d) Grant.

6. Which Union loss caused Lincoln to exclaim, "What will the country say?"
(a) Fredericksburg.
(b) Chancellorsville.
(c) Bull Run.
(d) Antietam.

7. What issue does Donald say consumed a great deal of Lincoln's time and drove his politics?
(a) Keeping border states loyal.
(b) Supplying Fort Sumter.
(c) Preventing in-fighting in his cabinet.
(d) Preparing the public for a long war.

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

9. What was the 10% plan?
(a) There could not be more than 10% of the slave population still in slavery for a state to re-enter the union.
(b) Unrepentant Southerners could not occupy more than 10% of a state's cabinet positions.
(c) A state's war reparations could not exceed 10% of its total income.
(d) 10% of voters from the 1860 election had to have voted in any post-war election for it to be valid.

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

11. What did Horace Greeley do during the international crisis facing Lincoln?
(a) Wrote articles critical of Lincoln.
(b) Organized a conference on trade.
(c) Advocated for international mediation.
(d) Ran Northern blockades.

12. Whom did the Democrats get to run against Lincoln?
(a) Horace Greeley.
(b) McClellan.
(c) Ulysses Grant.
(d) Salmon Chase.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who replaced General Burnside?

2. How did Lincoln handle the question of emancipating the slaves?

3. What was Lincoln's view of his role in the Civil War?

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

5. Who helped Lincoln gain Britain's support for the Civil War?

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