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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. General Lee shocked the Union by doing what?
(a) Resigning from his position.
(b) Retreating.
(c) Taking rebel troops north.
(d) Joining the Union.

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

3. ______________ declared itself "neutral" in the conflict, with people enlisting in both armies.
(a) Maryland.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Missouri.
(d) Kentucky.

4. In ____________, Lincoln met Mary Ann Todd, a witty young woman who could talk with him about politics.
(a) October 1839.
(b) September 1839.
(c) November 1839.
(d) December 1839.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Stonewall Jackson's force blew through Fremont's lines in Shenandoah Valley, though Lincoln had done what?

2. Sixteen-year-old Abraham grew estranged from his farmer father. Why?

3. After becoming President-Elect, Lincoln began compiling a list of what?

4. Who were refuges for Lincoln?

5. The Kansas-Nebraska Bill was Stephen A. Douglas' idea of what?

(see the answer key)

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