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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 do in order to escape the hard work his father had done?

2. Describe the temperament of Lincoln's wife.

3. What effect did slavery have on politics in the 1850s?

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

5. Where did Lincoln deliver an address in front of prominent Republican Party members?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Lincoln's relationship with the image his supporters presented of him?

3. How did Lincoln end up back in Springfield?

4. Describe Lincoln's retirement from politics.

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

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

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

8. What issue was returned Lincoln to politics?

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

10. Describe the beginnings of the Civil War.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who were the power brokers behind Lincoln's Presidential nomination and his ultimate election? What coalitions and influences worked together to elect him? What were Lincoln's bases of support, and what did he and his advisers do to expand that base? Was Lincoln his own force in politics, or was he the face of a system that backed him.

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

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?

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