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

2. Who does Lincoln congratulate in "You Were Right, and I Was Wrong"?
(a) General Marshall.
(b) General Grant.
(c) General McClellan.
(d) General Sherman.

3. What military stalemate did Lincoln address in "An Idea I Have Been Trying to Repudiate for Quite a Year" ?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Florida.

4. What was Lincoln's number one priority in the war according to "I Would Save the Union"?
(a) Freeing the slaves.
(b) Humiliating Jefferson Davis.
(c) Maintaining his legacy.
(d) Saving the Union.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Lincoln suspend the right of Habeas Corpus according to "The Writ of Habeas Corpus is Suspended" ?

2. What military objective did Lincoln remind the recipient of "I Am Not Watching You with an Evil-Eye" was vital to the war effort?

3. What did Lincoln refuse to do in "Will Be Received and Considered"?

4. What was one of Lincoln key objectives in the war according to "Making Our Advantage an Over-match for His"?

5. Who did Lincoln criticize in "If We Never Try, We Shall Never Succeed"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lincoln address when he writes to General Hooker?

2. What did Lincoln attempt to persuade Congress to do?

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

4. What did Lincoln pocket veto?

5. What writ did Lincoln suspend?

6. What does Lincoln foreshadow in response to a proclamation by General David Hunter?

7. What trade did Lincoln reject?

8. What does Lincoln claim in a response to a white man?

9. What became a contentious issue of the Reconstruction era?

10. What words does the Gettysburg Address begin with?

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