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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. What plot was uncovered in Baltimore?
(a) To assassinate the President-elect.
(b) To kidnap the President-elect.
(c) To bribe the President-elect.
(d) To rob the President-elect.

2. What did this bill state?
(a) Slavery should be legal in the territories.
(b) Slavery should be legal in all states.
(c) Slavery would be banned in the northern states.
(d) Slavery would be illegal.

3. Thomas Lincoln died on January 17, 1851. Did Lincoln attend the funeral?
(a) Yes, but only for a few moments.
(b) Yes, but only after everyone else had left.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

4. Virginia officially seceded on April 17, and the Confederacy declared ____________ its capital.
(a) Williamsburg.
(b) Alexandria.
(c) Richmond.
(d) Lexington.

5. Southern concerns about slavery were growing more frantic, and Lincoln refused to make a public statement. Why did he refuse to do this?
(a) The Southern papers always misconstrued what he said, painting him as a radical abolitionist.
(b) He became more introverted and ignored the Southerners' pleas.
(c) The Southerners did not want him to respond.
(d) He did not know how to respond to the Southerners.

Short Answer Questions

1. Vicksburg surrendered to Grant who Lincoln admired for what reason?

2. The War Department began mobilizing black regiments, agreeing that black and white outfits would do what?

3. How was Meade like his predecessors?

4. Because of ____________, most Democrats were now against Lincoln.

5. Lincoln was the only lawyer who did what?

(see the answer key)

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