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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did this bill state?
(a) Slavery would be illegal.
(b) Slavery should be legal in the territories.
(c) Slavery should be legal in all states.
(d) Slavery would be banned in the northern states.

2. On the way down the river to New Orleans, what happened to Lincoln and his friend's raft?
(a) It sank.
(b) It was destroyed by rebels.
(c) It got stuck on a dock.
(d) It got stuck across a dam in New Salem.

3. Colonel Robert E. Lee was sent into the fray to put the rebellion down, and the incident was branded by Southerners as what?
(a) The start of the Civil War.
(b) A huge mistake.
(c) Lincoln's doing.
(d) A Republican plot to overthrow the South.

4. In October 1839 the Whigs held a convention and endorsed who for President, beginning the so-called Log and Cabin Campaign?
(a) William Henry Harrison.
(b) John Adams.
(c) Benjamin Harrison.
(d) Henry Clay.

5. When did the Lincolns move to central Illinois?
(a) March 1830.
(b) March 1831.
(c) March 1829.
(d) March 1828.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Kansas-Nebraska Bill was Stephen A. Douglas' idea of what?

2. Lincoln was interested in patent cases and participated in the Supreme Court of Illinois, winning most of his _______ cases there.

3. Lincoln became known as ___________ lawyer.

4. Describe Thomas Lincoln.

5. How did Lincoln feel about this scandal?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does "Sally" come to be a part of the Lincoln family?

2. With what deaths do the Lincolns have to deal?

3. What were the results when Lincoln and Douglas put themselves forth as Presidential candidates?

4. What was Lincoln's first job? How might this have affected his opinion on slavery?

5. What happened between Lincoln and Mary Owens?

6. What children were born amid these deaths?

7. What did the bill spark?

8. What was the Dred Scott decision?

9. What were the consequences of Lincoln's "House Divided" speech?

10. How was Lincoln unique as a lawyer?

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