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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Ten: Mighty Scourge of War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After moving to Springfield, how did Lincoln feel?
(a) He was lonely.
(b) He was bored.
(c) He was worried.
(d) He was excited.

2. What political party was gaining favor from abolitionists in the North?
(a) Know-Nothings.
(b) Republicans.
(c) Democrats.
(d) Whigs.

3. Kansas rejected the LeCompton Constitution, ensuring what?
(a) It could be a free state.
(b) It would eventually be a slave state.
(c) It would eventually be a free state.
(d) It would be a slave state.

4. Lincoln read voraciously and taught himself mathematics, but his real interest was in what?
(a) Music.
(b) Politics.
(c) Languages.
(d) Art.

5. Why did Thomas Lincoln go back to Kentucky to bring home a new wife, Sarah Bush Johnston, or "Sally?"
(a) His household was floundering.
(b) His children asked him for a mother.
(c) He fell in love with Sally.
(d) He was lonely.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Lincoln moved to New Salem, for what did he become known?

3. Lincoln focused on _____________ Illinois, because this part of the state would be the deciding factor.

4. Lincoln declared that the ________________ no longer applied, which caused flocks of slaves to run to the Union border, claiming themselves for the Union as "contraband of war."

5. Lincoln demoted McDowell in favor of who to take command of the Army of the Potomac?

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