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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. When the Kansas-Nebraska Bill was passed, it left the status of slavery up to who?
(a) The Governors.
(b) The President.
(c) Congress.
(d) The people who settled in the territory.

2. Republican papers began mentioning Lincoln's name for what?
(a) The Senate.
(b) Congress.
(c) Governor.
(d) The Presidency.

3. 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.

4. Why did Lincoln not drink alcohol?
(a) He could not afford it.
(b) It threatened his self-control.
(c) He was very religious.
(d) He did not like the taste of it.

5. Why did Thomas Lincoln go back to Kentucky to bring home a new wife, Sarah Bush Johnston, or "Sally?"
(a) He fell in love with Sally.
(b) He was lonely.
(c) His household was floundering.
(d) His children asked him for a mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Douglas adopted what strategy?

2. Lincoln was interested in patent cases and participated in the Supreme Court of Illinois, winning most of his _______ cases there.

3. Lincoln preached what?

4. Insecurities with whom would plague him for many years?

5. How did Lincoln convince the court that the railroad did not have to pay county taxes?

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