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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. When the 54th of Massachusetts--a Negro outfit--launched a viscous attack against rebels at Fort Wagner, what myth was effectively ended?
(a) Of the fearful Negro.
(b) Of the weak Negro.
(c) Of the complacent Negro.
(d) Of the unintelligent Negro.

2. Who was Fredrick Douglass?
(a) An army general.
(b) An inventor.
(c) A member of Lincoln's cabinet.
(d) An influential black abolitionist leader.

3. Who was Lincoln's Attorney General?
(a) Edward Bates.
(b) William Dennison.
(c) Montgomery Blair.
(d) James Speed.

4. Vicksburg surrendered to Grant who Lincoln admired for what reason?
(a) He was brave.
(b) He was always victorious.
(c) He never refused orders or lost his objectives.
(d) He was very intelligent.

5. After becoming President-Elect, Lincoln began compiling a list of what?
(a) Difficult White House employees.
(b) Friends to from whom to ask for help.
(c) Possible generals.
(d) Possible cabinet members.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Did Lincoln support this amendment?

3. What two boys were born to the Lincolns?

4. In the Senate, John J. Crittenden proposed the Crittenden Plan which suggested what?

5. General Lee shocked the Union by doing what?

(see the answer key)

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