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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 did Lincoln accuse Polk of, when he was serving as a Representative?

2. What was Lincoln's party?

3. What was Lincoln beginning to be known for after years of traveling the court circuit?

4. Whom did Lincoln support in the 1852 Presidential campaign?

5. What was the Republican Party founded on?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Lincoln's involvement in the 1848 Presidential election?

2. Compare and contrast Lincoln's relationship with his wife and his relationship with his partner, William Herndon.

3. Describe Lincoln's strategy for choosing his advisers.

4. How did Lincoln finally get married?

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

6. Describe the Lincolns' moves.

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

8. How did Lincoln end up back in Springfield?

9. What issue was returned Lincoln to politics?

10. Describe Abraham Lincoln's period of aimlessness in Illinois.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Lincoln was not sitting in the legislature, he was active in the Republican Party, shaping the platform. How can you reconcile Lincoln's work out of the spotlight, working behind the scenes inside the party, with his public advocacy of Republican Party platform positions?

Essay Topic 2

What were the benefits and what were the risks of Lincoln's cabinet of enemies? Did this arrangement ultimately benefit Lincoln? Did it hurt him? Discuss instances in which it was helpful or harmful.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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