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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What two boys were born to the Lincolns?
(a) John and James.
(b) Teddy and Lincoln.
(c) William and Thomas.
(d) Sam and Todd.

3. Lincoln was the only lawyer who did what?
(a) Owned his own law firm.
(b) Rode the entire court circuit for both sessions.
(c) Became President.
(d) Got involved in politics.

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

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

6. Where had a civil war begun?
(a) Missouri.
(b) Kansas.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Nebraska.

7. How did Lincoln convince the court that the railroad did not have to pay county taxes?
(a) Because they did not earn enough money to pay taxes.
(b) Because they are not-for-profit.
(c) Because they were public enterprises.
(d) Because they do not have the money.

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

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

10. Lincoln's rivals were Stephen A. Douglas, known as ____________, and the young Democrats.
(a) The Jolly Green Giant.
(b) Jack and the Giant.
(c) The Mean Giant.
(d) The Little Giant.

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

12. What event perpetuated Lincoln's fatalistic beliefs and preoccupation with death?
(a) The death of Sally in 1828 in childbirth.
(b) The death of Lincoln's wife in 1828.
(c) Lincoln's sister, Sarah, died in 1828 in childbirth.
(d) Lincoln's father's death in 1828.

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

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

15. In October 1859, a band of Northern abolitionists tried to capture ____________, a town in Virginia, and start a rebellion.
(a) Richmond.
(b) Harpers Ferry.
(c) Alberta.
(d) Clarksville.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lincoln ran his Senatorial campaign against Douglas for what reason?

2. Was Lincoln with the free-soilers?

3. Lincoln focused on _____________ Illinois, because this part of the state would be the deciding factor.

4. What school did Lincoln attend irregularly between ages 11 and 15, developing interests in reading, poetry, penmanship, and the early years of the American Republic?

5. Kansas rejected the LeCompton Constitution, ensuring what?

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