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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were things going for the Union in 1862?
(a) Things were not going well.
(b) The situation was chaotic, and it was hard to say how things were.
(c) Successes were mixed with setbacks.
(d) Things were proceeding well.

2. What happened to complicate U.S. relations with Britain?
(a) British merchants wanted to help the Confederacy.
(b) Two Confederate officers were seized from a British ship.
(c) Some northerners wanted to help the South through the British.
(d) British aid was intercepted by the South.

3. What condition did Lincoln propose to impose on states that wanted to rejoin the union?
(a) Governors had to be appointed by Lincoln himself.
(b) States had to renounce their secession and repay the North for their war costs.
(c) States had to free their slaves and demonstrate integration of black and white cultures.
(d) State governments had to be run by men who had taken an oath of loyalty to the country.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What message did Horace Greeley convey to Lincoln?

2. How did Lincoln appease the border states?

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

4. What action did Congress take on slavery at the end of 1864?

5. What effect did Lincoln's response to Greeley have?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lincoln bolster his support in the face of criticism over McClellan's inaction?

2. Describe Lincoln's approach to the question of slavery relative to his conduct of the war.

3. What was the public's initial reaction to the Civil War?

4. Describe Lincoln's final falling out with General McClellan.

5. What was the state of the Union after Lincoln was re-elected?

6. Describe Lincoln's relationship with General Hooker.

7. How did Lincoln handle the decision of when to liberate the slaves?

8. How did the Civil War create international difficulties for Lincoln?

9. How did Lincoln establish the terms for peace?

10. Why did Lincoln not liberate all the slaves early in the war?

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