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