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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. How was Meade like his predecessors?
(a) He did not pursue Lee's army to an unconditional surrender, but allowed them to escape.
(b) He was ill-prepared.
(c) He was not very intelligent.
(d) He was fearful.

2. In the Senate, John J. Crittenden proposed the Crittenden Plan which suggested what?
(a) Reviving the Missouri Compromise line, abolishing slavery above it, and protecting slavery below it.
(b) Abolishing the Missouri Compromise line, encouraging slavery.
(c) Moving the location of the Missouri Compromise line, abolishing slavery in some southern states.
(d) Moving the Missouri Compromise line, encouraging slavery in some northern states.

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

4. What bill did Stephen A. Douglas create?
(a) The Nebraska Bill.
(b) The Kansas Bill.
(c) The Missouri Bill.
(d) The Kansas-Nebraska Bill.

5. Why did Lincoln grow his Quaker beard?
(a) It was stylish.
(b) His face was cold.
(c) A little girl wrote him a letter telling him his face was too thin and he should grow a beard.
(d) Mary asked him to grow it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had been made practically obsolete by this bill?

2. What did neighbors think about the Lincoln children?

3. Lincoln appointed Salmon Chase as what?

4. When did Lincoln's son, Eddie, die?

5. After his election, Lincoln had a troubling ________.

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