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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 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?
(a) The Kansas-Nebraska Bill.
(b) The Missouri Compromise.
(c) The Dred Scott Decision.
(d) The Emancipation Proclamation.

2. After becoming President-Elect, Lincoln began compiling a list of what?
(a) Possible cabinet members.
(b) Difficult White House employees.
(c) Friends to from whom to ask for help.
(d) Possible generals.

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

4. To what did James Shields, a state auditor and a Democrat, challenge Lincoln?
(a) A duel.
(b) A race.
(c) A game of chess.
(d) A debate.

5. In ____________, Lincoln met Mary Ann Todd, a witty young woman who could talk with him about politics.
(a) December 1839.
(b) October 1839.
(c) November 1839.
(d) September 1839.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who won the Senate seat?

2. South Carolina unanimously voted to do what?

3. What were Douglas' ideas causing in the Democratic party?

4. Lincoln had to relieve General Burnside because of what?

5. When the 54th of Massachusetts--a Negro outfit--launched a viscous attack against rebels at Fort Wagner, what myth was effectively ended?

(see the answer key)

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