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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Seven: Storm Center.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would relieve Lincoln's depression and allow him to escape for a little while?
(a) Drawing and painting.
(b) Going for long walks.
(c) The opera and theater.
(d) Writing poetry.

2. In October 1839 the Whigs held a convention and endorsed who for President, beginning the so-called Log and Cabin Campaign?
(a) William Henry Harrison.
(b) Henry Clay.
(c) John Adams.
(d) Benjamin Harrison.

3. ____________ stayed in the Union.
(a) Massachusetts, and Maryland.
(b) Kentucky and Illinois.
(c) West Vriginia and Illinois.
(d) Maryland and Missouri.

4. When the Kansas-Nebraska Bill was passed, it left the status of slavery up to who?
(a) Congress.
(b) The people who settled in the territory.
(c) The Governors.
(d) The President.

5. Where had a civil war begun?
(a) Missouri.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Kansas.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what did James Shields, a state auditor and a Democrat, challenge Lincoln?

2. The Presidential campaign of 1856 elected who?

3. On what topic did Lincoln agree with Henry Clay?

4. Colonel Robert E. Lee was sent into the fray to put the rebellion down, and the incident was branded by Southerners as what?

5. After inauguration, the President passed what, declaring the Declaration a white man's document, and that Congress had no right to prohibit slavery in any of the territories?

(see the answer key)

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