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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation issued according to "Shall Be Thenceforth, and Forever Free"?
(a) September 1862.
(b) October 1862.
(c) December1862.
(d) November 1862.

2. What idea did Lincoln stress in "The Jewel of Liberty" ?
(a) Limited black suffrage for the state of New York.
(b) Limited black suffrage for the state of Louisiana.
(c) Limited black suffrage for the state of Florida..
(d) Limited black suffrage for the state of Noth Carolina.

3. How was the Emancipation Proclamation written?
(a) In a straightforward manner.
(b) With rhetoric to support it.
(c) Straightforward and brief.
(d) In a brief manner.

4. What did Carl Schurz blame Lincoln's administration for according to "I Do Not See That Their Superiority of Success has Been So Marked"?
(a) The war and Republican failure at the 1862 election.
(b) The economy going down.
(c) The taxes increase.
(d) The lack of education founding.

5. When was "Will Be Received and Considered" written?
(a) June 1864.
(b) August 1864.
(c) May 1864.
(d) July 1864.

6. Why did Lincoln send "Quarrel Not at All" to the brother in law of Stephen Douglas?
(a) To make an example.
(b) To avoid further embarrassment to his family.
(c) To humiliate Stephen Douglas.
(d) To prevent distention in Congress.

7. What offer did Lincoln reject in "Few Things are So Troublesome"?
(a) Trading corn.
(b) Trading iron.
(c) Trading prisoners.
(d) Trading cotton.

8. What was the war about according to "Equal Privileges in the Race of Life"?
(a) Abolishing slavery.
(b) Lincoln's legacy.
(c) The prosperity of future generations.
(d) Teaching the south a lesson.

9. What state did Lincoln praise for abolishing slavery?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Florida.
(d) North Carolina.

10. Why wasn't "The Administration Will Not Be Re-Elected" sent by Lincoln?
(a) An intern stole it.
(b) It was meant as a reminder.
(c) He lost it.
(d) He won the general election.

11. What was the Wade-Davis bill about?
(a) Forgiveness for war profiteers.
(b) Exceptions in the Emencipation Proclamation.
(c) Reconstruction.
(d) War fonding.

12. What did Lincoln call radicals in "The Jewel of Liberty"?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Giving former slaves in North Carolina reparation.
(c) Giving African Americans equal rights.
(d) Incoporating African Americans in the regular army.

13. What policy did Lincoln ask congress to help with in "Gradual Emancipation is Better for All"?
(a) Gradual emancipation.
(b) Gradual emancipation and full suffrage.
(c) Gradual arrests of disloyal residents and gradual emancipation.
(d) Gradual suffrage.

14. What did Lincoln support in "It Works Doubly"?
(a) The use of Irish soldiers.
(b) The use of Native American soldiers.
(c) The use of defecting Confederate soldiers.
(d) The use of black soldiers.

15. Who does Lincoln thank in "Not Best to Swap Horses When Crossing Streams"?
(a) The anti-slavery league.
(b) The Republican party.
(c) The Union League.
(d) The Democratic party.

Short Answer Questions

1. What military stalemate did Lincoln address in "An Idea I Have Been Trying to Repudiate for Quite a Year" ?

2. What was Lincoln's number one priority in the war according to "I Would Save the Union"?

3. Why was Hooker relieved of duties shortly after "Lee's Army Is Your True Objective Point"?

4. Who was in command of the Union armies in April of 1864?

5. What were the Unionists calling the army to go easy on according to "Leaving Any Available Card Unplayed"?

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