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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Eight: This Fiery Trial.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had been made practically obsolete by this bill?
(a) The Illinois Bill.
(b) The Missouri Compromise.
(c) The Fugitive Law.
(d) The Mississippi Compromise.

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 Lost Speech.
(b) The Worst Speech.
(c) The Last Speech.
(d) The Best Speech.

3. Lincoln ran his Senatorial campaign against Douglas for what reason?
(a) On principle.
(b) For personal gain.
(c) For his father.
(d) For Mary.

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

5. What plot was uncovered in Baltimore?
(a) To bribe the President-elect.
(b) To assassinate the President-elect.
(c) To kidnap the President-elect.
(d) To rob the President-elect.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lincoln reiterated in the debates that the slavery issue was between who?

2. In January __________, a Lincoln campaign for Presidential candidacy was officially underway.

3. ____________ stayed in the Union.

4. In ____________, Lincoln met Mary Ann Todd, a witty young woman who could talk with him about politics.

5. He left McClellan in charge of what army?

(see the answer key)

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