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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 Lincoln's policy between the election in 1860 and his inauguration in 1861?

2. Who was Stephen Douglas?

3. What was Lincoln's feeling about slavery?

4. What position did Douglas take in the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

5. What important event took place after Lincoln returned to Illinois?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Lincoln's Presidential campaign conducted?

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

3. When did Lincoln start his family?

4. How did Lincoln end up back in Springfield?

5. How much is known about Lincoln's ancestry?

6. What issue was returned Lincoln to politics?

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

8. Describe Lincoln's retirement from politics.

9. Describe Lincoln's temperament as a politician.

10. How did Lincoln finally get married?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did Lincoln face opposition from his generals? Was it because of something personal to Lincoln, or simply because of the odiousness of the task of prosecuting a war against renegade states? How did Lincoln respond to his generals' opposition, what did it force him to do, and how did he change or grow as a politician or as a person in response to his generals' insubordination?

Essay Topic 2

Lincoln was elected to the Presidency as an honest rail-splitting, hard-working man, but he himself was aloof from the image. In what ways did Lincoln retain his childhood self, and his father's personality, and in what ways did Lincoln diverge from the manual labor of his father's pioneer life? Did Lincoln change cultures, or did he bring pioneer virtues to the White House when they were needed there?

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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