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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 handle the question of emancipating the slaves?

2. When did Lincoln present the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet?

3. Which Union loss caused Lincoln to exclaim, "What will the country say?"

4. What shift did Lincoln's letter to Greeley indicate in Lincoln's thinking?

5. How did Lincoln appease the border states?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Lincoln's relationship with General Hooker.

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

3. Describe Lincoln's final falling out with General McClellan.

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

5. Describe Lincoln's relationship with his wife during the hard times of the war.

6. How was the Civil War progressing for the Union troops in 1864?

7. Why did Lincoln not liberate all the slaves early in the war?

8. What problems did Lincoln have with General McClellan?

9. When does Donald locate the low point for Lincoln's administration?

10. How did Lincoln change the command structure of the army in order to get better results out of General McClellan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was Lincoln's role in the South's secession? Was it Lincoln's personal political stance, or were there other, larger issues behind the Southern states' timing in announcing their secession?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

When Lincoln declined to serve in a seat he had won, he ended up back in Springfield, where he was involved in local politics and he earned himself a name as a local lawyer. How was Lincoln's experience as a local figure related to his experience as a national figure?

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