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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. Whose seat was Lincoln gunning for in 1858?

2. What position did Lincoln hold after winning the 1852 election?

3. What was the issue at the heart of the issue that brought Lincoln back to politics?

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

5. What position was Lincoln offered when he left Washington, DC.?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Lincoln's temperament as a politician.

2. What was Lincoln's early relationship with his father like?

3. How was Lincoln's Presidential campaign conducted?

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

5. How did Lincoln finally get married?

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. Describe the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

9. What issue was returned Lincoln to politics?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lincoln made extensive efforts to unify the splintered Republican Party, which was divided on slavery. In what ways did he try to accommodate the slave states' positions, to negotiate to bring them into a coalition? What factors prevented Lincoln from bargaining with the slave states and preventing the Civil War?

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 was the effect of the Lincoln-Douglas debates on Lincoln's career? How did Lincoln change as a thinker and as a politician as a result of the debates?

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