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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 school did Lincoln attend irregularly between ages 11 and 15, developing interests in reading, poetry, penmanship, and the early years of the American Republic?

2. After inauguration, the President passed what, declaring the Declaration a white man's document, and that Congress had no right to prohibit slavery in any of the territories?

3. Was Lincoln with the free-soilers?

4. Insecurities with whom would plague him for many years?

5. Lincoln read voraciously and taught himself mathematics, but his real interest was in what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. With what is Lincoln concerned? How does he feel this issue should be handled?

3. Describe Lincoln's personality as a young man.

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

5. How do the Lincolns raise their children?

6. How was Lincoln unique as a lawyer?

7. How did Mary and Abraham handle her family's desire to see their relationship end?

8. How did the Republicans want Lincoln to pin down Douglas?

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

10. What might have begun Lincoln's fascination with madness?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lincoln was assassinated on April 14th.

Part 1) How did Lincoln's decisions throughout his Presidency affect John Wilkes Booth? What did Booth think he would accomplish by killing Lincoln?

Part 2) How was his assassination foreshadowed? What is ironic about his assassination?

Part 3) How did Lincoln's assassination affect the country? How might Lincoln's death have also been beneficial to the Union?

Essay Topic 2

The Union Army is weak through much of the war.

Part 1) Describe the Union Army. Why is it so weak? How is this reflected in various Civil War battles?

Part 2) How is the army able to be successful in the end? How do the leaders of this army learn from their mistakes? What role does Lincoln play in the strengthening of this army?

Part 3) Compare the Union Army to the U.S. Army today?

Essay Topic 3

Lincoln is reelected.

Part 1) How does he go about getting reelected? What does this say about the country?

Part 2) how does this reelection affect him? Should he have wanted to be reelected? Why or why not?

Part 3) What does his reelection do for the country?

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