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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When McClellan finally ordered his army into the enemy camp at Manassas, what did he find?
(a) A Union regiment.
(b) The camp abandoned and that the cannons he thought the rebels had were just logs.
(c) A well-stocked and well-trained Confederate Army.
(d) The camp abandoned and a great deal of weaponry.

2. Lincoln got Congress to sign a bill that overturned what, outlawing slavery in all federal territories?
(a) The Dred Scott decision.
(b) The Missouri Compromise.
(c) The Corwin Amendment.
(d) The Kansas-Nebraska Bill.

3. Virginia officially seceded on April 17, and the Confederacy declared ____________ its capital.
(a) Williamsburg.
(b) Lexington.
(c) Alexandria.
(d) Richmond.

4. Lincoln still needed more troops, so he enforced what?
(a) Conscription of all non-US citizens.
(b) The use of POWs as soldiers.
(c) Conscription.
(d) Acceptance of women in the military.

5. Grant was a small man who graduated from where?
(a) West Point.
(b) Maine Maritime Academy.
(c) Culver Military Academy.
(d) The Naval Academy.

6. Lincoln called Grant back east and appointed him what, the first to hold the position since Winfield Scott?
(a) General in Chief of all Union armies.
(b) Brigadier General.
(c) General in Chief of all Union armies and Lieutenant General.
(d) Lieutenant General.

7. Who was Lincoln's Attorney General?
(a) James Speed.
(b) Montgomery Blair.
(c) Edward Bates.
(d) William Dennison.

8. Who were refuges for Lincoln?
(a) His wife and son, Robert.
(b) Lincoln's boys Willie and Tad.
(c) His close friends.
(d) Lincoln's cabinet members.

9. Who did Lincoln think about after Willie's death?
(a) God.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) Mary.

10. Stonewall Jackson's force blew through Fremont's lines in Shenandoah Valley, though Lincoln had done what?
(a) Given the generals specific instructions to prevent his escape.
(b) Provided his army with experienced generals.
(c) Weakened Jackson's men.
(d) Given the generals plenty of well-trained soldiers.

11. Why did Lincoln grow his Quaker beard?
(a) His face was cold.
(b) It was stylish.
(c) Mary asked him to grow it.
(d) A little girl wrote him a letter telling him his face was too thin and he should grow a beard.

12. What would relieve Lincoln's depression and allow him to escape for a little while?
(a) The opera and theater.
(b) Going for long walks.
(c) Writing poetry.
(d) Drawing and painting.

13. Lincoln was very busy, often with over _________ visitors a day, and his right hand was swollen and sore from all the shaking.
(a) 50.
(b) 100.
(c) 1000.
(d) 150.

14. He left McClellan in charge of what army?
(a) The Army of Kentucky.
(b) The Army of the Potomac.
(c) The Western Army.
(d) The Army of Viriginia.

15. Lincoln decided to combine the forces of McDowell, Fremont, and Banks into one Army of ___________, with General John Pope as the Commander.
(a) Virginia.
(b) The Potomac.
(c) The Union.
(d) Kentucky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What plot was uncovered in Baltimore?

2. Robert E. Lee decided to fight for whom?

3. General Lee shocked the Union by doing what?

4. South Carolina unanimously voted to do what?

5. Lincoln and who ran on the Republican ticket for the next election?

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