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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What compelled Lincoln to take the steps leading to war and the Emancipation Proclamation according to "If Slavery is Not Wrong, Nothing is Wrong"?
(a) The view that he thought would have him reelected.
(b) His personal view.
(c) The view most popular according to a recent survey.
(d) The Constitution.

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

5. What did Lincoln tell Hooker not to do in "There is No Eligible Route for Us into Richmond"?
(a) Attack Lee's army.
(b) Take Richmond.
(c) Pursue Lee's army.
(d) Rest his troops.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Carl Schurz blame Lincoln's administration for according to "I Do Not See That Their Superiority of Success has Been So Marked"?

2. What did the election of Republicans pave the way for according to "The New Reckoning"?

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

4. How long did "Shall Be Thenceforth, and Forever Free" give to the Confederacy states to rejoin the Union?

5. Who does Lincoln congratulate in "You Were Right, and I Was Wrong"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lincoln declare in January 1863 according to "A New Birth in Freedom"?

2. What did Lincoln urge General McClellan to do in a letter?

3. What did Lincoln do to spare the Douglas family?

4. What trade did Lincoln reject?

5. What does Lincoln stress about the war to a group of soldiers?

6. What should Hooker's chief aim be according to another letter to Hooker?

7. Why was Hooker soon relieved of his duties?

8. How does Lincoln respond to Illinois Congressman Isaac Arnold?

9. What writ did Lincoln suspend?

10. What does Lincoln make the Union synonymous with in December 1862?

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