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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Nine: The New Reckoning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lincoln had to relieve General Burnside because of what?
(a) The public did not like Burnside.
(b) Burnside became very ill.
(c) A disastrous campaign at Fredericksburg.
(d) Burnside was a secret southern sympathizer.

2. What had been made practically obsolete by this bill?
(a) The Illinois Bill.
(b) The Mississippi Compromise.
(c) The Missouri Compromise.
(d) The Fugitive Law.

3. Rebels laid siege to what fort?
(a) Fort Knox.
(b) Fort Sumter.
(c) Fort Craig.
(d) Fort Atkinson.

4. George Gordon Meade continued with the Army of the Potomac on a collision course with Lee where?
(a) In Gettysburg.
(b) At Bulls Run.
(c) At Manassus.
(d) In Richmond.

5. Who was Lincoln's first cabinet appointment?
(a) John P. Usher as Secretary of the Interior.
(b) William H. Seward as Secretary of State.
(c) William P. Fessenden as Secretary of the Treasury.
(d) Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Meade like his predecessors?

2. Because of ____________, most Democrats were now against Lincoln.

3. Did Lincoln support this amendment?

4. What did Mary turn to for help when her son died?

5. On what topic did Lincoln agree with Henry Clay?

(see the answer key)

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