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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. What was to become of Alexander Stephens according to the editor?

2. What theory does Lincoln try to disprove in "Opens the Way for All"?

3. What did Lincoln urge Congress NOT to do in "The Tug Has to Come"?

4. What were the southern states doing at the time of "The Tug Has to Come"?

5. What did Lincoln refuse to do according to "It is the End of Us"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect did Lincoln's speech in February 1860 have?

2. What does Lincoln express frustration with in regards to Henry Clay?

3. What did Lincoln confess to Senator Lyman Trumbull?

4. Who was Grace Bedell and what did she suggest to Lincoln?

5. What did Lincoln order?

6. What will tear the Union asunder according to Lincoln's address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield?

7. What concerns did Lincoln have regarding the Maryland state legislature?

8. What characteristics does Lincoln consider in the ideal lawyer?

9. What did the South do after Lincoln's election in "The Perpetuity of Popular Government"?

10. What was Lincoln slow to recognize?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the Reconstruction era in the south and the problems Lincoln addressed regarding the Reconstruction.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss John Wilkes Booth's concerns regarding President Abraham Lincoln's rhetoric and political strategies.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and why Lincoln found an opponent in Stephen Douglas.

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