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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. On January 1st, 1863, as Commander in Chief of the army and navy, Lincoln would do what?
(a) Send his army and navy fleets to battle.
(b) Force all POWs to be Union soldiers.
(c) Liberate all slaves in the rebel states.
(d) Force all white men age eighteen and older to join the military.

3. In __________ Tennessee, Ulysses S. Grant won a victory for the Union, though rumors persisted that he was a drunk.
(a) Northern.
(b) Southern.
(c) Eastern.
(d) Western.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the Senate, John J. Crittenden proposed the Crittenden Plan which suggested what?

3. Upon reports that Grant was drinking again, Lincoln did what?

4. Lincoln still needed more troops, so he enforced what?

5. When McClellan finally ordered his army into the enemy camp at Manassas, what did he find?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Lincoln said he did not support the amendment?

2. Describe Grant.

3. How was Lincoln in conflict over emancipation? What did he eventually decide about emancipation?

4. Describe the events at the National Soldier's Cemetery at Gettysburg.

5. What did Lincoln do with the Fugitive Slave Law? What were the effects of this?

6. What happened to Willie? How did this affect the Lincolns?

7. What was happening to Lincoln's reconstruction plan in Louisiana?

8. What are two battles won by the Union? What problems still existed, though?

9. How was the Southern Confederacy formed?

10. Describe Lincoln's call for troops.

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