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Lincoln Study Quiz

1. What state was Lincoln born in?

(A) Illinois

(B) Indiana

(C) Kentucky

(D) Virginia

2. In what war did Lincoln serve as the captain of his volunteer company?

(A) Black Hawk War

(B) Civil War

(C) Mexican War

(D) Revolutionary War

3. In what year did Lincoln first run for public office in Illinois State Assembly

(A) 1823

(B) 1832

(C) 1834

(D) 1846

4. Which of the following jobs did Lincoln NOT hold during the early 1830s?

(A) phrenologist

(B) postmaster

(C) store clerk

(D) surveyor

5. What party did Lincoln belong to during his first years in politics?

(A)  Democrat

(B) Federalist

(C) Republican

(D) Whig

6. How old was Lincoln when he got married?

(A) 23

(B) 28

(C) 33

(D) 38

7. Lincoln only owned one house in his entire life. What city was this house in?

(A) Chicago

(B) Springfield

(C) Washington

(D) Louisville

8. How many children did the Lincolns have?

(A) 1

(B) 2

(C)  3

(D)  4

9. Of the following, who was thought to be an illegitimate child?

(A) Lincoln's father

(B) Lincoln's mother

(C) Lincoln

(D) Lincoln's youngest son

10.  What Kentucky senator did Lincoln greatly admire?

(A) John C. Calhoun

(B) Henry Clay

(C) Franklin Pierce

(D) James Polk

13. In what year was Lincoln elected to the House of Representatives?

 (A) 1834

(B) 1836

(C)  1838

(D)  All of the above

14. What Democratic senator emerged as Lincoln's main political rival in the 1850s?

(A) Stephen Douglas

(B) Frederick Douglass

(C) Robert E. Lee

(D) William Seward

15. What was the name of the controversial policy outlined in the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

(A) Desert Storm

(B) manifest destiny

(C) The New Deal

(D) popular sovereignty

16. What was the name of the group opposed to slavery in all forms?

(A) abolitionists

(B) Falun Gong

(C) suffragettes

(D) teetotalers

17. What important Supreme Court decision declared slaves to be property, not citizens?

(A) Brown v. Board of Education

(B) Dred Scott

(C) Miranda v. Arizona

(D) Roe v. Wade

18. In 1858, which state hosted a series of debates between Lincoln and Douglas?

(A) Illinois

(B) Indiana

(C) Kansas

(D) Nebraska

19. Where did Lincoln deliver an influential speech in February of 1860?

(A) Cooper Institute

(B) Gettysburg College

(C) Harvard University

(D) Smithsonian Institute

Some say it made him President.

20. What party nominated Lincoln for president in 1860?

(A) Constitutional Union

(B) Democratic

(C) Republican

(D) Whig

21. In the 1860 presidential election, Lincoln won what percentage of the popular vote?

(A) 40 percent

(B) 50 percent

(C) 55 percent

(D) 60 percent

22. Who was Lincoln's vice president from 1861-1865?

(A) Salmon Chase

(B) Hannibal Hamlin

(C) Andrew Johnson

(D) U.S. Grant

23. What was the first state to secede from the Union, on December 20, 1860?

(A) Alabama

(B) Georgia

(C) South Carolina

(D) Tennessee

24. What senator made which unsuccessful compromise proposal in December 1860?

(A) Henry Clay Consideration

(B)John  Crittenden Compromise

(C) Jefferson Davis Debate

(D) William Seward Secession

25. Who directly preceded Lincoln as president of the United States?

(A) James Buchanan

(B) Millard Fillmore

(C) Franklin Pierce

(D) Zachary Taylor

26. Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

(A) Chickamauga

(B) Fort Sumter

(C) Manassas

(D) Shiloh

27. Where did the Union army suffer its first major defeat?

(A) Bunker Hill

(B) Appomattox

(C) Manassas

(D) Pea Ridge AR

28. What incident caused tensions between the Union and Great Britain in November 1861?   Explain.

(A) Boston Tea Party

(B) Trent Affair

(C) Watergate

(D) XYZ Affair

29. Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

(A) Jefferson Davis

(B) Robert E. Lee

(C) Andrew Jackson

(D) Stonewall Jackson

30. Which of these states were part of the eleven which seceded and did the Emancipation Proclamation apply to?

(A) Kansas

(B) Missouri

(C) Pennsylvania

(D)  Virginia

31. Which of the following was NOT a nickname bestowed upon Lincoln?

(A) Honest Abe

(B) Chuckles

(C) Rail Splitter

(D) The Tycoon

32. Which of the following bills was NOT signed into law by Lincoln?

(A) Conscription Act

(B) Homestead Act

(C)  Morrill Land Grant Act

(D) Sherman Anti-trust Act

33. Where did major rioting occur against the Conscription Act in the summer of 1863?

(A) Baltimore

(B) Fort Seattle

(C)New York City

(D) South Carolina

34. What Union victory prompted Lincoln’s remark, "the  father of waters again goes unvexed to the sea"?

(A) Fredericksburg

(B) Gettysburg

(C)  Shiloh

(D)  Vicksburg

35. How long did Lincoln's Gettysburg Address take to deliver?

(A) Four hours and seven min.

(B) Two minutes

(C) Twenty minutes

(D) Two hours

36. Who did Lincoln name as commander of all Union forces in March 1864?

(A) General George Meade

(B) U.S. Grant

(C) George B. McClellan

(D) William Tecumseh Sherman

37. What country led a hostile takeover of Mexico  spring of 1864?

(A) Britain

(B) France

(C)  Spain

(D)  United States

38. Who was the US Secretary of State injured in the Lincoln assassination? Blamed for the land purchase of Alaska.

(A) Salmon P. Chase

(B) Stephen Douglas

(C) William Seward

(D) Charles Sumner

39. Who ran against Lincoln for president in 1864?

(A) John C. Fremont

(B) Horace Greeley

(C) George B. McClellan

(D) Winfield Scott

40. What state was admitted to the Union on October 31, 1864, in hopes of boosting Lincoln's results in the electoral college?

(A) Minnesota

(B) Nevada

(C) Oregon

(D) West Virginia

41. In what speech did Lincoln utter the expression "With malice toward none; With charity toward all"?

(A) First Inaugural Address

(B) Emancipation Proclamation

(C) Gettysburg Address

(D) Second Inaugural Address

42. What city did Sherman burn in November 1864?

(A) Memphis

(B) Atlanta

(C) Richmond

(D) Tallhassee

43. Which state's re-application to the Union did Lincoln speak hopefully of in his final public address?

(A) Alabama

(B) Louisiana

(C) Tennessee

(D) South Carolina

44. Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?

(A) John Wilkes Booth

(B) Edwin Thomas Booth

(C)Charles J. Guiteau

(D) John Ford

45. How old was Lincoln when he died?

(A) 52

(B) 56

(C)  61

(D)  65

46. Where is Lincoln buried?

 (A) Arlington

(B) Gettysburg

(C)  Springfield

(D)  Washington

47. Who succeeded Lincoln as president of the United States?

(A) U.S. Grant

(B) Hannibal Hamlin

(C) Benjamin Harrison

(D) Andrew Johnson

48. Which of the following amendments abolished slavery?

(A) Fifth

(B) Thirteenth

(C)  Fifteenth

(D)  Nineteenth

49. Which of Lincoln's sons went on to become a successful lawyer and politician in his own right?

 (A) Robert

(B) Eddie

(C)  Willie

(D)  Tad

50. Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?

(A) Grant

(B) Hoffa

(C)  Lincoln

(D)  Taft

Secession Dates

1.    So. Carolina - Dec 20, 1860

2.   Mississippi - January 9, 1861

3.   Florida - January 10, 1861

4.   Alabama - January 11, 1861

5.   Georgia - January 19, 1861

6.   Louisiana - January 26, 1861

7.   Texas - February 1, 1861

8.   Virginia - April 17, 1861

9.   Arkansas - May 6, 1861

10.  No. Carolina - May 20, 1861

11.  Tennessee - June 8, 1861

Abraham Lincoln Colloquia Study

Lincoln Era DATES & NAMES

Feb 12, 1809

Manifest Destiny

Northwest Ordinance

War of 1812

Missouri Compromise 1820

Monroe Doctrine of 1823

1833 South Carolina Threat

John C. Calhoun

President Andrew Jackson

Force Act

Black Hawk War 

Popular sovereignty

Henry Clay, Senator

Compromise of 1850

Mexican American War Territories

Kansas Nebraska Act of 1954

Steven A Douglas

Jefferson Davis

“Bloody Kansas,”

Dred Scott decision in 1857

Republican political party

Democrat political party

Whig Political Party

Election of 1860

March of 1861

Confederate States of America – Name Them

Emancipation Proclamation

Gettysburg Address

September 22, 1862.-- Jan 1, 1863

November 19, 1863

Election of 1864

April 8, 1864

Thirteenth Amendment

Slavery Resolution Amendments

APRIL  15, 1861

APRIL  15, 1865

JW Booth

General R. E. Lee

Ulysses S. Grant

General Beauregard

George McClelland

General George Meade

When Abraham Lincoln was born Feb 12, 1809 the federal government had been organized just twenty years. The countries original thirteen colonies, and territory yet to be settled, were still very much subject to the influence of its parent country.  The United States won over Britain in the War of 1812 and then Pres. James Monroe issued this warning to Britain with the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 stating America’s right to self- determination on its own power.  Lincoln's early years coincided with rapid frontier movements and pioneer expansion.

in 1833, a clash between state and federal power began when South Carolina threatened to secede after a series of high tariffs were passed by the federal government. John C. Calhoun, South Carolina  senator attempted to nullify federal tariff policy  and President Andrew Jackson signed the Force Act, with federal military intervention toward the insurgency. South Carolina eventually backed down, but not before revealing the schism between these two rival opinions.  Slavery in the western expansion had been curtailed with the Northwest Ordinance, still the question of slavery policy was controversial.

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 under James Monroe, had cut a line between free and slave territory but further expansion caused debate again. As the Western Rep., Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky offered two compromises between the north and south. Clay's vague Compromise of 1850 allowed California to enter the Union as a free state only if it made a fugitive slave law.

Then, anarchy after Stephen Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854, legislation that allowed popular sovereignty. With the question of slavery in the territories thrown open to local sentiment, abolitionists and slavers rushed to populate various districts in the interest of advancing their cause and warfare ensued in “Bloody Kansas,” sparking a fierce national debate over slavery and sovereignty. Then Supreme Court released its Dred Scott decision in 1857, defining slaves as property,  it opened the territories permanently to slavery and declared the abolition of slavery in free states to be unconstitutional.

Then Abraham Lincoln, a former Illinois state legislator and congressman, was elected as president in 1860 on the Republican-a fledgling party of abolitionists taking advantage of the fractured Democratic party and by the time he was inaugurated in March of 1861, seven states had seceded and formally established the Confederate States of America with Jefferson Davis as President.  One month later April 15,  1861 the Civil war began as the Confederate forces under Beauregard opened fire on Fort Sumter, SC, held by Union forces. 

September 22, 1862. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued stating that as of Jan 1, 1863 all slaves in the eleven confederate states in rebellion would be freed.  Though many slaves had been declared free by Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation their post-war status was uncertain. On April 8, 1864, the Senate passed the thirteenth amendment to abolish slavery. After one unsuccessful vote and extensive legislative maneuvering by the Lincoln administration, the House followed suit on January 31, 1865. The measure was swiftly ratified by nearly all northern states,  along with a sufficient number of border and "reconstructed" Southern states, to cause it to be adopted before the end of the year.

 In 1863 the tide turned against the confederacy and Lincoln won reelection in 1864 and in April 65 was assassinated by JW Booth, five days after the war ended with the surrender of General R. E. Lee at Appomattox courthouse.  In discussing his role as commander-in-chief during the closing months of the Civil War, Lincoln was quite able to "plainly confess that events have controlled me more than I have controlled them," a humble opinion from a big man, who stood at six feet, four inches.

Lincoln recognized the power of the written word, and wary of its tendency to distort, he wrote a 1856 letter to his law partner, William H. Herndon, "biographies as generally written are not only misleading, but false...in most instances they commemorate a lie, and cheat posterity out of the truth."

Chronology for Lincoln

http://www.nps.gov/liho/historyculture/homechronology.htm

Abraham Lincoln Essay Question

Part 1:  Some men and women are called on to lead their countries into violence.  What was Abraham Lincoln's view of that violence and of his role in permitting the violence as a means to peace and justice?


Part 2:  Compare and contrast others in history who have lead their country into violence.  (What were their motives?  Means?  Consequence?)

Lecture on 6 Keys to Personal Influence

Read:    

Anatomy of Peace:   Arbinger Institute   -- good quotes to intro. book

Leadership and self-deception - Arbinger Institute  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxl8mwLanfw

Homesteader vs. Squatter Simulation - Pioneer go Home  by Richard Porter and Follow that Dream - Elvis movie

#1 Example

Carl Bloch picture
Fire of Faith:  John Groberg - Vinajuatu opening
Eli Weisel - Night
Irena Sendler
  Vinajuatu opening John Groberg, http://deseretbook.com/Fire-Faith-John-H-Groberg/i/4452368

#2 Service

Florence Nightengale
Jacque Lusseyran - And There Was Light.
Immacylee Ilibagiza - 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immacul%C3%A9e_Ilibagiza     rawandan genocide - seven women in one small bthroom 90 days. 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rwandan-genocide-survivor-recalls-horror/

#3  Oral Persuasion

Caddie Woodlawn  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddie_Woodlawn

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/3/minnesota-authors-pioneer-book-comes-back-to-life/?page=2

#4  Written Persuasion

a.  letters

b. scriptures

#5 Prayer

Doterra  http://maxgoddard.com/the-accident  Max and the Chemical Burns

Laddie

Where the Red Fern Grows

#6 The Arts

Kseniya Simonova and Ukaraine Sand Art

Patrick Henry Colloquia

Patrick Henry Colloquia

In 1734, a young Scottish family settle in Hanover County Virginia.  The husband John Henry is a member of Virginia’s landed gentry, a landowner and the wife, ______________ belonged to a fine old Welch family.  In1748, the great awakening took the area by storm and P. Henry see the great speaker and evangelist Samuel Davies.  1751 he clerks in a store and opens his own in 1752, but it fails because he is lazy.   1754, Patrick marries Sara Shelton, becomes land and slave owner of six and tobacco farmer.  That fails and Patrick studies to become a lawyer.  In 1760 he passes the bar after only reading two books and opens a law firm. 

French-Indian war ends, Britain looks for ways to pay war debt and impose new taxes like Sugar Act and Currency Act in 1764.  The Stamp Act and Quartering Act of 1965 provoke the successful lawyer Patrick Henry and as a newly elected member of the House of Burgess, he delivers his famous Caesar-Brutus speech,  "If this be treason, make the most of it!”   When Henry compares Charles III to those tyrants, he is accused of treason and the House of Burgesses’ celebrated resolutions against the tax are passed—and citizens begin the Anti Stamp-Act Revolts.  The British pass a Declaratory Act, which says they have rights over colonies, but repeals the Stamp act.  The Townshend Acts tax glass, lead, paint, paper, and the same year, 1767, English warships sail into Boston Harbor.

1770 Boston Massacre 5 civilians killed by the British, and Townshend and Quartering Acts are repealed but in 1773 Tea Act is enacted giving British East India Trading Company rights s/b merchants.

1773 Henry helps create the Committee of Correspondence, a subversive group of shadow government of all the 13 colonies and in

1773 The Boston Harbor gets the tea.  Dec. 16, Boston Tea Party protest happens.  In response Britain passed five laws called the Intolerable Acts to reign in the patriots and a series of other acts.

1774 Patrick Henry elected to the First Continental Congress.  Met Sept 5- Oct 26.

1775, March 23, Henry delivers his famous speech, “Give me Liberty of Give me Death!”  and two days later is elected to the Second Continental Congress.  The next month his wife Sara dies at Scotchtown. 

1775, Also in April Paul Revere warns the Bostonians of war and the next month, Governor Dunmore issues an edict against Patrick Henry.  And during the battles of Lexington and Concord, the first shots were fired. 

May 6, 1775 Governor Dunmore issues edict against Patrick Henry

June 15, 1775 Continental Army formed with Geo. Washington general and commander.

August 29,1775  Patrick Henry is elected commander-in-chief of the Virginia militia. 

1776

February 28, 1776: Patrick Henry resigns military command

June 29, 1776   Henry elected governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia and helps to write the Virginia Constitution - the Virginia Declaration of Rights

July 4, 1776 Thomas Jefferson presents the Declaration of Independence

1777  Reelected governor of Virginia  Became a five time governor--he declined sixth term. 

1777  October  marries Dorothea Dandridge – together have eleven children

1782  Final battle of Revolutionary War

1783 War ends,  Paris signs the Treaty, Sept 3, Treaty of Paris signed.

1784  January -- Officially the war is 'or.
  

1786 declines election to his sixth term  as governor of VA and resumes law practice.

1788  Elected to the VA  Constitutional Convention.

1788 No Bill of Rights causes Henry HATE.   VA ratifies constitution 89 to 79 but no bill of rights makes Henry opposed.

1791, Patrick Henry finally won.  The month after Patrick Henry resigns from the House of Delegates, the Bill of Rights is ratified by the USA.

1794-96   1794-1796: Henry declines sixth term as governor of Virginia and appointments as U. S. Senator, Chief Justice, Secretary of State, and ambassador to Spain and France due to his failing health

1799 Mar. 4, Gives final speech in March, at Charolette Courthouse and

June 6, 1799 Patrick Henry dies of stomach cancer. Ald lang syne.  Old long time.