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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. The War Department began mobilizing black regiments, agreeing that black and white outfits would do what?
(a) Train together.
(b) Remain together.
(c) Remain segregated.
(d) Fight side by side.

2. Lincoln demoted McClellan and had who take over the Commander in Chief job?
(a) Albert S. Johnston.
(b) Joseph G. Totten.
(c) Sylvester Churchill.
(d) Lincoln.

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

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

5. What accusations surrounded Mary?
(a) That she was spoiled and unkind.
(b) That she was not American.
(c) That she was in love with another man.
(d) That she was secretly a Southern sympathizer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. McClellan still refused to attack the rebels head-on. Why?

3. By what was Mary haunted?

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

5. Lincoln put ______________ Hooker in command of the Potomac Army.

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lincoln get slavery outlawed in all federal territories?

2. What ended Lincoln's 10% plan? How was he affected by this and other actions by members of the Republican Party?

3. Describe Grant.

4. What did the Union worry about Great Britain doing? What did Great Britain end up doing? Why might they have done this?

5. Why did Lincoln grow his Quaker beard?

6. What happened when McClellan finally ordered his army into the enemy camp at Manassas?

7. What led to antiwar protests?

8. How did Lincoln go about changing who was in charge of the Potomac Army?

9. What was the Crittenden Plan?

10. Describe the events at the National Soldier's Cemetery at Gettysburg.

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