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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. He entered into a law practice with John Todd Stuart, and won his first court case. What type of case was this?
(a) Extortion.
(b) Theft.
(c) Armed Robbery.
(d) Murder.

2. The Kansas-Nebraska Bill was Stephen A. Douglas' idea of what?
(a) Popular sovereignty.
(b) A way to boost his popularity.
(c) Utopia.
(d) Freedom.

3. What were Douglas' ideas causing in the Democratic party?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Cohesiveness.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Major rifts.

4. How did Lincoln feel about this scandal?
(a) Worried.
(b) Happy.
(c) Ashamed.
(d) Angry.

5. The bill sparked what debates?
(a) Douglas-Buchanan.
(b) Lincoln-Clay.
(c) Lincoln-Buchanan.
(d) Lincoln-Douglas.

6. How did Lincoln feel without Mary?
(a) Worried.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Depressed.
(d) Content.

7. Lincoln wanted to run for a senate seat, but he could not. Why not?
(a) No one wanted to vote for him.
(b) He was a member of the legislature.
(c) He was very ill.
(d) He was already a member of the senate.

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

9. When did Lincoln's son, Eddie, die?
(a) March 1, 1850.
(b) May 1, 1850.
(c) February 1, 1850.
(d) April 1, 1850.

10. In November Lincoln and Douglas had their first debate over what, starting a rivalry that would last years?
(a) Negro suffrage.
(b) State banks.
(c) Female suffrage.
(d) The national debt.

11. Who led the free-soilers?
(a) Crab Charles.
(b) Tuna Chester.
(c) Talapia Churchill.
(d) Salmon Chase.

12. Lincoln read voraciously and taught himself mathematics, but his real interest was in what?
(a) Art.
(b) Politics.
(c) Music.
(d) Languages.

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

14. Kansas rejected the LeCompton Constitution, ensuring what?
(a) It would eventually be a slave state.
(b) It would eventually be a free state.
(c) It would be a slave state.
(d) It could be a free state.

15. Douglas adopted what strategy?
(a) The "I care" strategy.
(b) The "don't care" strategy.
(c) The "care" strategy.
(d) The "you don't care" strategy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe Thomas Lincoln.

2. Why did Lincoln write to Mary Owens to release her from their engagement?

3. How did many free-soilers feel about the Kansas-Nebraska Bill?

4. Describe Robert Todd.

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

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