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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Nine: The New Reckoning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The War Department began mobilizing black regiments, agreeing that black and white outfits would do what?
(a) Train together.
(b) Remain segregated.
(c) Fight side by side.
(d) Remain together.

2. Vicksburg surrendered to Grant who Lincoln admired for what reason?
(a) He never refused orders or lost his objectives.
(b) He was very intelligent.
(c) He was always victorious.
(d) He was brave.

3. George Gordon Meade continued with the Army of the Potomac on a collision course with Lee where?
(a) In Richmond.
(b) In Gettysburg.
(c) At Manassus.
(d) At Bulls Run.

4. In the Senate, John J. Crittenden proposed the Crittenden Plan which suggested what?
(a) Moving the location of the Missouri Compromise line, abolishing slavery in some southern states.
(b) Abolishing the Missouri Compromise line, encouraging slavery.
(c) Reviving the Missouri Compromise line, abolishing slavery above it, and protecting slavery below it.
(d) Moving the Missouri Compromise line, encouraging slavery in some northern states.

5. Who was Lincoln's first cabinet appointment?
(a) Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War.
(b) William H. Seward as Secretary of State.
(c) John P. Usher as Secretary of the Interior.
(d) William P. Fessenden as Secretary of the Treasury.

Short Answer Questions

1. Thomas Lincoln died on January 17, 1851. Did Lincoln attend the funeral?

2. How did Lincoln convince the court that the railroad did not have to pay county taxes?

3. Lincoln put ______________ Hooker in command of the Potomac Army.

4. Who was Lincoln's Attorney General?

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

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