Lincoln Test | Final Test - Easy

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Lincoln Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Donald say Lincoln returned to with the Gettysburg Address?
(a) Making public proclamations.
(b) Optimism.
(c) Habeas Corpus.
(d) Freedom of speech.

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

4. What prospect was beginning to open for Lincoln as he entered the third year of the war?
(a) Life-long appointment.
(b) Abdication.
(c) Reelection.
(d) Imperial power.

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

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

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

8. Who helped Lincoln gain Britain's support for the Civil War?
(a) Stephen Douglas.
(b) Laurence Keitt.
(c) Charles Sumner.
(d) Preston Brooks.

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

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

11. 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) Free passage if they made an oath of loyalty to the Union.
(d) Return of habeas corpus for those who had been dispossessed.

12. What were the border states afraid of?
(a) Lincoln would liberate the slaves.
(b) That Lincoln would make them pay for the actions of any Southern sympathizers.
(c) Lincoln would tax them to pay for the Union army.
(d) Lincoln would demand enormous numbers of troops and materials from them.

13. 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.

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

15. How did Lincoln announce his desire for the Presidential nomination?
(a) He staged a scene in which his advisors gestured to crown him.
(b) He let his advisors know that he would welcome the nomination.
(c) He undermined the prospects of his opponents.
(d) He made a public address.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Edward Stanton?

2. What was the occasion for the Gettysburg Address?

3. Where did Union troops suffer an early defeat?

4. What danger did the Confederate troops pose in summer 1864?

5. Who was Philip Sheridan?

(see the answer keys)

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