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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. How did many free-soilers feel about the Kansas-Nebraska Bill?
(a) Happy.
(b) Outraged.
(c) Excited.
(d) Worried.

2. When McClellan finally ordered his army into the enemy camp at Manassas, what did he find?
(a) A well-stocked and well-trained Confederate Army.
(b) A Union regiment.
(c) The camp abandoned and that the cannons he thought the rebels had were just logs.
(d) The camp abandoned and a great deal of weaponry.

3. What did Democrats call Lincoln?
(a) A great leader.
(b) A warmonger and an abolitionist.
(c) A Know-Nothing.
(d) An insane man.

4. 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 Emancipation Proclamation.
(d) The Dred Scott Decision.

5. How was Meade like his predecessors?
(a) He was ill-prepared.
(b) He was fearful.
(c) He did not pursue Lee's army to an unconditional surrender, but allowed them to escape.
(d) He was not very intelligent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Lincoln ran his Senatorial campaign against Douglas for what reason?

3. Was Lincoln with the free-soilers?

4. In Lincoln's inauguration speech, he promised first and foremost to do what?

5. The Confederates sent an army into the state, which enraged _________________ and pushed them into the Union.

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