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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Edward Stanton?
(a) A military strategist who advised Lincoln.
(b) The official who replaced Simon Cameron.
(c) The official whom Lincoln appointed as Secretary of State.
(d) The official whom Lincoln appointed as Secretary of Defense.

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

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

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

5. How did Congress handle the crisis with the British?
(a) They arrested Simon Cameron.
(b) They opened an investigation into Lincoln and McClellan.
(c) They gave Lincoln explicit war powers.
(d) They revoked Lincoln's war powers.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What is considered the most controversial action Lincoln took during the Civil War?
(a) Replacing McClellan with Burnside.
(b) The suspension of habeas corpus.
(c) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(d) The burning of Atlanta.

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

13. What technique did Lincoln use to kill the 50% plan Congress gave him?
(a) Signing statement.
(b) Filibuster.
(c) Veto.
(d) Pocket veto.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Donald say Lincoln returned to with the Gettysburg Address?

2. What terms did Lincoln offer to the parties Greeley claimed to represent?

3. What was Lincoln's relationship with McClellan through 1862?

4. What document justified the controversial step Lincoln took during the Civil War?

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

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