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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Lincoln replace General Burnside?
(a) He was losing too many battles.
(b) He would not follow Lincoln's orders.
(c) He had lost his subordinates' respect.
(d) He was incompetent.

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

3. 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 not afraid to use freed slaves in his army.
(c) He was more aggressive than McClellan was.
(d) He was willing to punish the Southern slaveholders.

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

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

6. Who was Philip Sheridan?
(a) The General who replaced General Grant.
(b) The Democratic nomination for president in 1864.
(c) The General Grant appointed to command in the Shenandoah Valley.
(d) Lincoln's Secretary of State.

7. What did the Battle of Antietam indicate for Lincoln?
(a) That God smiled on the Union.
(b) That he should abandon emancipation for now.
(c) That he should change generals.
(d) That he should bolster his support before making any new offensives.

8. What obstacle did Lincoln face in moving troops from north to south?
(a) Railroad saboteurs.
(b) Pro-South citizens in Maryland.
(c) Lack of funds.
(d) Inconsistent rail service.

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

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

11. Which states gave Lincoln a ready supply of troops?
(a) Slave states.
(b) Free states.
(c) Border states.
(d) Mid-Atlantic states.

12. 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.

13. What action did Congress take on slavery at the end of 1864?
(a) They passed the 13th amendment ending slavery.
(b) They passed the 14th Amendment giving blacks the right to vote.
(c) They passed the Emancipation Proclamation into law.
(d) They issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Lincoln on Election night 1864?

2. What was Lincoln's campaign motto for his re-election campaign?

3. What was Lincoln waiting for before making the Emancipation Proclamation?

4. How did the first major engagement with Southern troops change the public view of the war?

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

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