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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 issue at the heart of the issue that brought Lincoln back to politics?

2. Describe the relationship between Lincoln's wife and his business partner.

3. What did Lincoln tell his friends after he was elected President in 1860?

4. When was Lincoln elected to Congress?

5. Who was the President when Lincoln served in the Senate?

Short Essay Questions

1. What part did Lincoln's private life play in the years after he returned to Springfield?

2. How did Lincoln finally get married?

3. What issue was returned Lincoln to politics?

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

5. Describe the beginnings of the Civil War.

6. When did Lincoln start his family?

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

8. What was the effect of Lincoln's election on national politics?

9. Describe Lincoln's temperament as a politician.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How would you characterize Donald's biography of Lincoln? What are Donald's methods of writing the biography of Lincoln, and what are the benefits and risks of that method? How well does Donald succeed in his undertaking? Is the reader left wanting more or deeper treatment of a topic? If so, what topic?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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