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

2. How did Lincoln's strategy of appointing cabinet-members get him in trouble?
(a) Infighting kept anything from getting done.
(b) No one trusted others enough to work together.
(c) Rumors started to circulate that he was really affected by only one advisor.
(d) Accusations of corruption were endemic.

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

4. What did Hooker fail to do at Chancellorsville, in Lincoln's estimation?
(a) Press with his entire army.
(b) Wage a cautious battle.
(c) Keep enough soldiers in reserve.
(d) Retreat in time.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were the border states afraid of?

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

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

5. How did Lincoln respond to the controversies surrounding him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What major diplomatic problem confronted Lincoln at the end of the Civil War?

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

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

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

5. How does Donald account for Grant's success in the West, such that Lincoln wanted to appoint him to run the Union army?

6. How did Lincoln establish the terms for peace?

7. What difficulties did Salmon Chase create for Lincoln?

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

9. Describe General McClellan's campaign against Lincoln.

10. What problems did Lincoln face from Minnesota?

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