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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. While Grant settled in to siege Petersburg, Lincoln accepted Chase's resignation as Secretary of Treasury and appointed the position to who?
(a) William Fessenden.
(b) Edward Bates.
(c) Montgomery Blair.
(d) William Dennison.

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

4. Because of ____________, most Democrats were now against Lincoln.
(a) The Union's success.
(b) The draft.
(c) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(d) The war.

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

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

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

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

9. How did Lincoln meet with his cabinet members?
(a) He would meet with all of them at once.
(b) He would meet with them in small groups.
(c) He refused to meet with any of them.
(d) He would consult them individually.

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

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

12. Reconstruction in Louisiana was _____________.
(a) Quick.
(b) Simple.
(c) Complicated.
(d) A waste of time.

13. Jude Early led a rebel force from Harper's Ferry to seize what city?
(a) Charleston.
(b) Richmond.
(c) Washington.
(d) New York.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon reports that Grant was drinking again, Lincoln did what?

2. Along with South Carolina, what did Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas do?

3. In __________ Tennessee, Ulysses S. Grant won a victory for the Union, though rumors persisted that he was a drunk.

4. The Senate wanted to make what a war objective?

5. Who was Lincoln's Attorney General?

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