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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. Where was Lincoln on Election night 1864?

2. How did Lincoln participate in the 1862 elections?

3. What happened to Lincoln's support at the beginning of the Civil War?

4. What was the public sentiment about the Civil War at the beginning?

5. Where did the Union troops suffer a major defeat under General Burnside?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does Donald locate the low point for Lincoln's administration?

2. What international crisis did Lincoln leave Seward to avert?

3. How does Donald account for Grant's success in the West, such that Lincoln wanted to appoint him to run the Union army?

4. Describe Lincoln's relationship with General Hooker.

5. What problems did Lincoln face from Minnesota?

6. What major diplomatic problem confronted Lincoln at the end of the Civil War?

7. Describe Lincoln's plans to run for re-election.

8. Describe the genesis and delivery of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

9. What problems did Lincoln have with General McClellan?

10. Describe General McClellan's campaign against Lincoln.

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

Why did Lincoln face opposition from his generals? Was it because of something personal to Lincoln, or simply because of the odiousness of the task of prosecuting a war against renegade states? How did Lincoln respond to his generals' opposition, what did it force him to do, and how did he change or grow as a politician or as a person in response to his generals' insubordination?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Lincoln's temperament in relation to his career as a politician and leader. What role did his depressions play in his career? What role did his circumspection and rationality?

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