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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who was Fredrick Douglass?
(a) An influential black abolitionist leader.
(b) A member of Lincoln's cabinet.
(c) An army general.
(d) An inventor.

4. After becoming President-Elect, Lincoln began compiling a list of what?
(a) Possible cabinet members.
(b) Difficult White House employees.
(c) Friends to from whom to ask for help.
(d) Possible generals.

5. South Carolina unanimously voted to do what?
(a) Create their own nation.
(b) Stay with the Union.
(c) Secede from the Union.
(d) Remain peaceful.

6. Rebels laid siege to what fort?
(a) Fort Craig.
(b) Fort Knox.
(c) Fort Atkinson.
(d) Fort Sumter.

7. After a month of preparation, the Grand Army met the rebels where, though the Grand Army was ill-trained and the Union suffered a humiliating defeat?
(a) Shiloh.
(b) Fredericksburg.
(c) Bull Run.
(d) Chancellorsville.

8. Though Salmon Chase was favored to run against Lincoln for the Republican nomination, what scandal erased any hope Chase had for the nomination?
(a) Yazoo Land.
(b) Civil War Profiteering.
(c) The Pomeroy Circular.
(d) Gould and Fisk.

9. In __________ Tennessee, Ulysses S. Grant won a victory for the Union, though rumors persisted that he was a drunk.
(a) Western.
(b) Northern.
(c) Southern.
(d) Eastern.

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

11. Vicksburg surrendered to Grant who Lincoln admired for what reason?
(a) He never refused orders or lost his objectives.
(b) He was very intelligent.
(c) He was brave.
(d) He was always victorious.

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

13. Why did Lincoln refuse to make any compromises about slavery?
(a) He did not want slavery to exist in the Union.
(b) He was afraid to upset the Southern and border states.
(c) He refused to make any compromises throughout his Presidency.
(d) He did not want to buy his right to be peacefully inaugurated.

14. George Gordon Meade continued with the Army of the Potomac on a collision course with Lee where?
(a) At Bulls Run.
(b) At Manassus.
(c) In Richmond.
(d) In Gettysburg.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Lincoln wanted to be elected for a second term, though he had a strange feeling. What was this feeling?

2. Lincoln declared that the ________________ no longer applied, which caused flocks of slaves to run to the Union border, claiming themselves for the Union as "contraband of war."

3. Lincoln got Congress to sign a bill that overturned what, outlawing slavery in all federal territories?

4. Who was Lincoln's first cabinet appointment?

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

(see the answer keys)

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