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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. For whose nomination for President did Lincoln campaign?

2. What did Lincoln mean by the phrase "cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason"?

3. What did Lincoln work on after the 1852 election?

4. Whose seat was Lincoln gunning for in 1858?

5. Describe the temperament of Lincoln's wife.

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lincoln's legal practice bring him into questions of statewide or national importance?

2. How did Lincoln leave his affairs in Illinois when he went to Washington, DC to start his term in Congress?

3. What was the effect of Lincoln's election on national politics?

4. How did Lincoln end up back in Springfield?

5. What was Lincoln's involvement in the 1848 Presidential election?

6. What was Lincoln's relationship with the image his supporters presented of him?

7. Describe the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

8. What was Lincoln's relationship with his stepmother like?

9. How much is known about Lincoln's ancestry?

10. Describe the Lincolns' moves.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who were the power brokers behind Lincoln's Presidential nomination and his ultimate election? What coalitions and influences worked together to elect him? What were Lincoln's bases of support, and what did he and his advisers do to expand that base? Was Lincoln his own force in politics, or was he the face of a system that backed him.

Essay Topic 2

Were England and France--both of which had outlawed slavery and slave trading--hypocritical in opposing Lincoln's blockade of the South during the Civil War? What interests were they speaking for when they complained about the war's impact? Did their arguments reconcile with their humanitarian stance with regard to slavery, and if so how?

Essay Topic 3

What was Lincoln's role in the South's secession? Was it Lincoln's personal political stance, or were there other, larger issues behind the Southern states' timing in announcing their secession?

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