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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What changed when Lincoln replaced General Hooker with General Meade?
(a) Union losses declined steeply.
(b) The Union troops acted less effectively in battle.
(c) The Union troops repulsed the Confederate troops.
(d) Public opinion swung around sharply.

2. How did Lincoln bolster his support in the North?
(a) By encouraging the border states to liberate their slaves.
(b) By offering to pay for any war damages.
(c) By promising them funds for reconstruction.
(d) By offering them freedom from federal taxes.

3. Why did Lincoln not free all slaves early in the Civil War?
(a) He did not want the war to be a referendum on slavery.
(b) He did not have the authority to enforce such a proclamation.
(c) He thought it would give the South more support from abroad.
(d) He thought it would let the South play the role of victim.

4. How did the Civil War progress after initial Union losses?
(a) Southern troops began to falter for lack of supplies.
(b) Union troops languished for lack of supplies.
(c) Union troops suffered one disaster after another.
(d) Union troops began to win battles.

5. What was the 10% plan?
(a) 10% of voters from the 1860 election had to have voted in any post-war election for it to be valid.
(b) There could not be more than 10% of the slave population still in slavery for a state to re-enter the union.
(c) A state's war reparations could not exceed 10% of its total income.
(d) Unrepentant Southerners could not occupy more than 10% of a state's cabinet positions.

6. How did Lincoln appease the border states?
(a) By moving the fighting to the North.
(b) By separating abolition from the war for the Union.
(c) By moving the fighting to the south.
(d) By taking more recruits from the north.

7. What message did Horace Greeley convey to Lincoln?
(a) That French shipping agents wanted to talk about resuming trade with the South.
(b) That English merchants wanted to talk about resuming trade with the South.
(c) That a group of Confederate representatives wanted to discuss peace
(d) That New York entrepreneurs wanted to talk about financing reconstruction efforts.

8. How did the war effort affect international relations?
(a) While the Civil War raged, Mexico was threatening to retake territories it lost in the Mexican War.
(b) France and Britain complained because they could not get Southern cotton.
(c) France was sending support to the Confederacy.
(d) With so much attention on the war, the US was losing its trade advantages in Asia.

9. Which states gave Lincoln a ready supply of troops?
(a) Slave states.
(b) Mid-Atlantic states.
(c) Border states.
(d) Free states.

10. Who was Lincoln's chief opponent for the nomination for President in 1864?
(a) General Meade.
(b) Jefferson Davies.
(c) General Burnside.
(d) Salmon Chase.

11. Where did the Union troops suffer a major defeat under General Burnside?
(a) Antietam.
(b) Fredericksburg.
(c) Bull Run.
(d) Manassas.

12. What was one consequence of Lincoln's letter to Greeley?
(a) Some in the Union party wanted to rescind his nomination.
(b) Some Republicans wanted to rescind his nomination.
(c) Some Democrats wanted to impeach him.
(d) Some Republicans wanted to impeach him.

13. What happened to Lincoln's support at the beginning of the Civil War?
(a) It came together as people started to realize what the war would require.
(b) It stiffened as the war promised to last a long time.
(c) It fragmented once the fighting actually started.
(d) It softened with the first Union losses.

14. What danger did the Confederate troops pose in summer 1864?
(a) They were at the edge of defeat.
(b) Washington, DC was in danger.
(c) They were on the outskirts of New York.
(d) They were reduced to roving bands.

15. What action did Congress take on slavery at the end of 1864?
(a) They issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
(b) They passed the 13th amendment ending slavery.
(c) They passed the 14th Amendment giving blacks the right to vote.
(d) They passed the Emancipation Proclamation into law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Donald say the Gettysburg Address indicates about Lincoln?

2. What terms did Lincoln offer to the parties Greeley claimed to represent?

3. Who was Edward Stanton?

4. What criticism was made of the Emancipation Proclamation?

5. What was McClellan's feeling about the President and Congress?

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