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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Lincoln wanted to be elected for a second term, though he had a strange feeling. What was this feeling?
(a) He would not be elected.
(b) He would become ill.
(c) He would not be a good President.
(d) He would not live to see the end of the war.

3. ____________ stayed in the Union.
(a) Kentucky and Illinois.
(b) Maryland and Missouri.
(c) West Vriginia and Illinois.
(d) Massachusetts, and Maryland.

4. Along with South Carolina, what did Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas do?
(a) Established the Southern Confederacy.
(b) Created their own country.
(c) Remained loyal to the Union.
(d) Stayed peaceful throughout the war.

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

6. McClellan's _____________ was a huge problem.
(a) Fear.
(b) Lack of intelligence.
(c) Lack of experience.
(d) Inactivity.

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

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

9. The rest of the troops gradually arrived, with _______________ leading an outfit from New York, though he would be killed in a battle very early on.
(a) Richard Stoddert Ewell.
(b) Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard.
(c) Elmer Ellsworth.
(d) Edward Porter Alexander.

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

11. By what was Mary haunted?
(a) Images of dead Willie.
(b) Images of dead Eddie.
(c) Images of dead Lincoln.
(d) Images of dead Thomas.

12. Lincoln had to relieve General Burnside because of what?
(a) Burnside became very ill.
(b) A disastrous campaign at Fredericksburg.
(c) Burnside was a secret southern sympathizer.
(d) The public did not like Burnside.

13. Who was Lincoln's first cabinet appointment?
(a) William H. Seward as Secretary of State.
(b) John P. Usher as Secretary of the Interior.
(c) William P. Fessenden as Secretary of the Treasury.
(d) Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War.

14. Lincoln invited who to stay with them at the White House?
(a) Benjamin Hardin Helm and Emilie Helm.
(b) Sally Lincoln and Abraham's siblings.
(c) Emilie Helm and her three children.
(d) Robert Lincoln.

15. 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."
(a) Articles of Confederation.
(b) Fugitive Slave Law.
(c) Corwin Amendment.
(d) Confiscation Act.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the 54th of Massachusetts--a Negro outfit--launched a viscous attack against rebels at Fort Wagner, what myth was effectively ended?

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

3. Who were refuges for Lincoln?

4. He left McClellan in charge of what army?

5. Southern concerns about slavery were growing more frantic, and Lincoln refused to make a public statement. Why did he refuse to do this?

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