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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 became known as ___________ lawyer.
(a) A railroad.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) The uneducated.
(d) Backwoods.

2. Because of ____________, most Democrats were now against Lincoln.
(a) The war.
(b) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(c) The draft.
(d) The Union's success.

3. Thomas Lincoln died on January 17, 1851. Did Lincoln attend the funeral?
(a) Yes, but only for a few moments.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Yes, but only after everyone else had left.

4. After his election, Lincoln had a troubling ________.
(a) Speech.
(b) Day.
(c) Vision.
(d) Thought.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What bill did Stephen A. Douglas create?

2. South Carolina unanimously voted to do what?

3. How did Robert Lincoln feel when his father was away on political trips?

4. For what case did Lincoln become famous?

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

(see the answer key)

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