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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. With whom did Lincoln ultimately replace McClellan?

2. How did Lincoln participate in the 1862 elections?

3. What did the Battle of Antietam indicate for Lincoln?

4. Whom did the Democrats get to run against Lincoln?

5. Who was Philip Sheridan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems did Lincoln face from Minnesota?

2. What international crisis did Lincoln leave Seward to avert?

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

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

5. What was the public's initial reaction to the Civil War?

6. What difficulties did Salmon Chase create for Lincoln?

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

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

9. Describe Lincoln's plans to run for re-election.

10. What problems did Lincoln have preserving the integrity of the free states?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Lincoln withhold or divulge information over time, and how did his thinking about what to divulge and when to divulge it change? What did he learn about managing information? What did he have to suffer in order to learn this lesson?

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

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?

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