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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Did Lincoln support this amendment?
(a) Not at first.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Only at first.

2. In the Senate, John J. Crittenden proposed the Crittenden Plan which suggested what?
(a) Moving the location of the Missouri Compromise line, abolishing slavery in some southern states.
(b) Reviving the Missouri Compromise line, abolishing slavery above it, and protecting slavery below it.
(c) Moving the Missouri Compromise line, encouraging slavery in some northern states.
(d) Abolishing the Missouri Compromise line, encouraging slavery.

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

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

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

6. 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) Chancellorsville.
(d) Bull Run.

7. On January 1st, 1863, as Commander in Chief of the army and navy, Lincoln would do what?
(a) Force all POWs to be Union soldiers.
(b) Force all white men age eighteen and older to join the military.
(c) Send his army and navy fleets to battle.
(d) Liberate all slaves in the rebel states.

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

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

10. ______________ declared itself "neutral" in the conflict, with people enlisting in both armies.
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Maryland.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Missouri.

11. Robert E. Lee decided to fight for whom?
(a) The British.
(b) The Union.
(c) The Confederates.
(d) No one.

12. General Winfield Scott was _________ to take the field.
(a) Too novice.
(b) Too young.
(c) Too unsure of himself.
(d) Too old.

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

14. McClellan still refused to attack the rebels head-on. Why?
(a) He feared he was outgunned and outnumbered.
(b) He did not believe he should attack.
(c) He did not trust Lincoln.
(d) He wanted to be a Confederate leader.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Grant was a small man who graduated from where?

2. What did Fremont do in Missouri without Lincoln's permission?

3. While Grant settled in to siege Petersburg, Lincoln accepted Chase's resignation as Secretary of Treasury and appointed the position to who?

4. George Gordon Meade continued with the Army of the Potomac on a collision course with Lee where?

5. Lincoln demoted McDowell in favor of who to take command of the Army of the Potomac?

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