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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Republican Party founded on?

2. What did Lincoln work on after the 1858 election?

3. Describe Lincoln's two children.

4. What did Lincoln believe he inherited from his grandmother?

5. What did Lincoln do when he returned to Illinois?

Short Essay Questions

1. What positions did Lincoln take in his career as a Whig legislator?

2. What did Lincoln do after he lost to Douglas?

3. Describe the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

4. When did Lincoln start his family?

5. What was Lincoln's relationship with his stepmother like?

6. How did Lincoln's legal practice bring him into questions of statewide or national importance?

7. What was the outcome of the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858?

8. What issue was returned Lincoln to politics?

9. How did Lincoln end up back in Springfield?

10. What was popular sovereignty and what role did it play in the politics of the 1850s.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Lincoln withhold or divulge information over time, and how did his thinking about what to divulge and when to divulge it change? What did he learn about managing information? What did he have to suffer in order to learn this lesson?

Essay Topic 2

Was Lincoln naïve to think that the Southern states could be brought back into the Union after seceding? Did he underestimate the passions associated with slavery, and the benefits associated with the Union? Was he misled by advisers?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the role of experiential learning in Lincoln's career, both as a young man and as President. How did he learn, and what made his judgment trustworthy? What errors did he make?

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