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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lincoln put ______________ Hooker in command of the Potomac Army.
(a) "Fighting Fred."
(b) "Fighting Joe."
(c) "Fighting Frank."
(d) "Fighting John."

2. 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.

3. How did Lincoln meet with his cabinet members?
(a) He refused to meet with any of them.
(b) He would meet with all of them at once.
(c) He would consult them individually.
(d) He would meet with them in small groups.

4. The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War was formed for what reason?
(a) To keep an eye on the war effort.
(b) To protect the North from the South.
(c) To keep an eye on Lincoln.
(d) To keep an eye on McClellan.

5. The War Department began mobilizing black regiments, agreeing that black and white outfits would do what?
(a) Train together.
(b) Remain segregated.
(c) Remain together.
(d) Fight side by side.

6. Lincoln finally had to take matters into his own hands and do what?
(a) Order the Army of the Potomac into action.
(b) Help McClellan with planning an attack for the Army of the Potomac.
(c) Order the Army of the Potomac to surrender.
(d) Find a new leader for the Army of the Potomac.

7. In the Senate, John J. Crittenden proposed the Crittenden Plan which suggested what?
(a) Reviving the Missouri Compromise line, abolishing slavery above it, and protecting slavery below it.
(b) Moving the location of the Missouri Compromise line, abolishing slavery in some southern states.
(c) Moving the Missouri Compromise line, encouraging slavery in some northern states.
(d) Abolishing the Missouri Compromise line, encouraging slavery.

8. Reconstruction in Louisiana was _____________.
(a) Simple.
(b) Complicated.
(c) A waste of time.
(d) Quick.

9. Who was Fredrick Douglass?
(a) A member of Lincoln's cabinet.
(b) An army general.
(c) An inventor.
(d) An influential black abolitionist leader.

10. When the 54th of Massachusetts--a Negro outfit--launched a viscous attack against rebels at Fort Wagner, what myth was effectively ended?
(a) Of the complacent Negro.
(b) Of the fearful Negro.
(c) Of the unintelligent Negro.
(d) Of the weak Negro.

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

12. Lincoln got Congress to sign a bill that overturned what, outlawing slavery in all federal territories?
(a) The Dred Scott decision.
(b) The Kansas-Nebraska Bill.
(c) The Corwin Amendment.
(d) The Missouri Compromise.

13. Lincoln _________ capable generals to lead his armies against the Southern insurrection.
(a) Had a few.
(b) Lacked.
(c) Had only two.
(d) Had many.

14. What accusations surrounded Mary?
(a) That she was in love with another man.
(b) That she was spoiled and unkind.
(c) That she was not American.
(d) That she was secretly a Southern sympathizer.

15. Lincoln left by train to go to Washington, making stops along the way for speeches and appearances, including a stop in New York to meet who?
(a) A little boy who had written him a letter.
(b) The young girl who suggested he grow a beard.
(c) Family members.
(d) Soldiers from Illinois.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were refuges for Lincoln?

2. Though Salmon Chase was favored to run against Lincoln for the Republican nomination, what scandal erased any hope Chase had for the nomination?

3. While Grant settled in to siege Petersburg, Lincoln accepted Chase's resignation as Secretary of Treasury and appointed the position to who?

4. Lincoln called Grant back east and appointed him what, the first to hold the position since Winfield Scott?

5. Along with South Carolina, what did Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas do?

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