QUIZ ANSWERS

1. Abraham Lincoln ran for president in 1860. Which of these statements would be most true about the southern states and the immediate effects of that election? They:

b. left his name off the ballot altogether in at least ten states.



2. In his first inaugural address, Lincoln said:

d. Lincoln said all of these things in his first inaugural address.



3. Lincoln's secretary of state asked him to change the ending of his inaugural address because he:

d. found it too harsh and martial in tone.



4. When Major Anderson, the commander at Fort Sumter, reported he was running low on supplies, Lincoln responded by:

c. saying he would provision the fort, as was his duty.



5. When Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled that Lincoln had acted unlawfully in the case of John Merryman, the president:

a. ignored the ruling.



6. When in July 1861 Lincoln explained to a special session of Congress his actions in the first months of the war, the response of Congress was to:

a. authorize retroactively all that he had done to avert the crisis.



7. In regard to southern states that attempted to leave the Union, Lincoln:

b. considered them sister states that had to be restored through firm leadership to their normal relations with the Union.



8. Stephen A. Douglas was Lincoln's political opponent in an 1857 U.S. Senate race. Which of the slavery viewpoints below best characterizes Douglas's position during that campaign:

c. Open up the remaining Louisiana Territory for settlement, and let the people decide through the ballot whether the area shall be slave or free.



9. Which of these statements best describes Lincoln's views on slavery at the beginning of the civil war: Slavery:

a. was degrading and immoral, but was protected in certain states because of the language of the Constitution.



10. With regard to the question of slavery, which of these statements best describes actions taken by Congress from the start of the Civil War until the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.

d. All of these actions were taken by Congress before January 1863.



11. Which statement best characterizes the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863:

a. Slaves held in states still in rebellion against the Union would be freed



12. Lincoln's justification for the Emancipation Proclamation was:

c. military necessity.



13. Which of these statements is not true with regard to the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment:

d. Lincoln was assassinated and thus did not live to see the amendment passed through both houses of Congress.



14. Which of these statements is most true in regard to Lincoln's contribution to the ending of slavery:

b. Lincoln believed slavery was evil and should be eradicated; he took an important first step in accomplishing that when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation.