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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five: Years of Meteors.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Anti-Nebraska groups began calling themselves what?
(a) Republicans.
(b) Democrats.
(c) Know-nothings.
(d) Whigs.

2. Insecurities with whom would plague him for many years?
(a) Other politicians.
(b) His father.
(c) Women.
(d) His stepmother.

3. What political party was gaining favor from abolitionists in the North?
(a) Whigs.
(b) Know-Nothings.
(c) Republicans.
(d) Democrats.

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

5. After inauguration, the President passed what, declaring the Declaration a white man's document, and that Congress had no right to prohibit slavery in any of the territories?
(a) The Dred Scott Decision.
(b) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(c) The Missouri Compromise.
(d) The Kansas-Nebraska Bill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Thomas Lincoln go back to Kentucky to bring home a new wife, Sarah Bush Johnston, or "Sally?"

2. Who won the Senate seat?

3. The Presidential campaign of 1856 elected who?

4. During his candidacy, Lincoln was encouraged to write an autobiography for what reason?

5. Douglas adopted what strategy?

(see the answer key)

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