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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mary turn to for help when her son died?

2. Their first debate was in what town?

3. Where had a civil war begun?

4. What did this bill state?

5. Lincoln reiterated in the debates that the slavery issue was between who?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the political environment at this time. What did this mean for the Whigs?

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

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

4. How was Lincoln unique as a lawyer?

5. What was significant about Kansas' rejection of the LeCompton Constitution?

6. What was the Missouri Compromise? How did the Kansas-Nebraska Bill affect the Missouri Compromise?

7. What was the Dred Scott decision?

8. What did free-soilers think about the Kansas-Nebraska Bill? Why?

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

10. What happened between Lincoln and Mary Owens?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lincoln opened a country store with Jon Berry, but they went into debt.

Part 1) How did this debt occur? How did it affect Lincoln? What did he learn from this?

Part 2) What did he call this debt? Why might he have called it this?

Part 3) What can we as Americans learn from Lincoln's debt and his process of dealing with it?

Essay Topic 2

Lincoln has an obsession with death.

Part 1) Describe this obsession. Why might it have begun? What events exacerbated it?

Part 2) How can this be seen as foreshadowing? How does it affect him throughout his life?

Part 3) What is the connection between this obsession and his religious beliefs?

Essay Topic 3

Lincoln has a vision.

Part 1) Describe this vision. How is it related to his obsession? How does it affect him?

Part 2) How does this vision and Mary's interpretation of it act as foreshadowing? What other foreshadowing takes place?

Part 3) How dose this vision reflect his personality? How does this side of his personality contrast his public persona?

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