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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Seven: Storm Center.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lincoln reiterated in the debates that the slavery issue was between who?
(a) Lincoln and Douglas.
(b) The North and the South.
(c) The Union and the Declaration of Independence.
(d) The people of the western territories.

2. The Republicans held a convention with Lincoln as the keynote speaker, and he gave an hour-and-a-half long impromptu speech. As what is this speech known?
(a) The Worst Speech.
(b) The Last Speech.
(c) The Lost Speech.
(d) The Best Speech.

3. ____________ stayed in the Union.
(a) Massachusetts, and Maryland.
(b) Kentucky and Illinois.
(c) West Vriginia and Illinois.
(d) Maryland and Missouri.

4. Colonel Robert E. Lee was sent into the fray to put the rebellion down, and the incident was branded by Southerners as what?
(a) A huge mistake.
(b) The start of the Civil War.
(c) A Republican plot to overthrow the South.
(d) Lincoln's doing.

5. What did this bill state?
(a) Slavery would be illegal.
(b) Slavery would be banned in the northern states.
(c) Slavery should be legal in all states.
(d) Slavery should be legal in the territories.

Short Answer Questions

1. Was Lincoln advocating war?

2. Why did Lincoln believe Douglas allied with Southern leaders?

3. The public was clamoring for a battle to take place, so Lincoln called Generals Scott and McDowell to discuss what?

4. The rest of the troops gradually arrived, with _______________ leading an outfit from New York, though he would be killed in a battle very early on.

5. What bill did Stephen A. Douglas create?

(see the answer key)

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