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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. How did Lincoln respond when a Democratic Representative opposed him as "King Lincoln"?

2. How did Lincoln announce his desire for the Presidential nomination?

3. How did Lincoln bolster his support in the North?

4. Who was Lincoln's chief opponent for the nomination for President in 1864?

5. Where was Lincoln on Election night 1864?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems did Lincoln have with General McClellan?

2. Describe the genesis and delivery of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

3. What was the state of the Union after Lincoln was re-elected?

4. Describe General McClellan's campaign against Lincoln.

5. What risk did Lincoln run by suspending habeas corpus?

6. How did the Civil War create international difficulties for Lincoln?

7. How did Lincoln bolster his support in the face of criticism over McClellan's inaction?

8. Describe Lincoln's approach to the question of slavery relative to his conduct of the war.

9. How does Donald account for Grant's success in the West, such that Lincoln wanted to appoint him to run the Union army?

10. What major diplomatic problem confronted Lincoln at the end of the Civil War?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Lincoln was engaged three times before he finally married his third fiancée. Compare and contrast his private life and his relationship with his wife, and his public life and his career as a politician. Was he the same person in either circumstance, or did he live a split life between the two spheres?

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