Video: Abraham Lincoln

1.What news reached Lincoln as he was travelling to Washington, DC?
2.How would he enter the capital?
3.What was he forced to decide about Ft. Sumter?
4.How was news of the war greeted in the North?
5.What 3 things did he do quickly?
6.What did Lincoln say about secession?
7.What 4 border states still retained slavery?
8.What happened in July 1861?
9.What kind of military experience did Lincoln have?
10. Who was the second commanding general of the Union army?
11. What did he say about Lincoln?
12. What was one of Lincoln's reasons for success?
13. What would be incredibly difficult for him to do?
14. How large was his staff?
15. How was the war going in Tennessee?
16. What happened to his son Willy?
17. What was his proposal of where to send free blacks?
18. What was the main purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?
19. What happened in September 1862?
20. What was the reaction to the Emancipation Proclamation in the North?
21. What would many union soldiers decide to do?
22. What happened at Fredericksburg?
23. What happened at Chancellorsville?
24. What did he call "a great force in restoring the union?"
25. What happened at Gettysburg?
26. What also happened on July 4, 1863?
27. What would he decide to do several months later?
28. What was his political future based on?
29. Who was his favorite general?
30. Why?
31. What was this general's strategy to win the war?
32. What did Mrs. Lincoln think?
33. Why was he criticized?
34. What was Lincoln under intense pressure to do?
35. What would he insist?
36. What did Lincoln and many Republican leaders believe may happen in November 1864?
37. Who would be his opponent?
38. What would his victory probably mean?
39. What actions had Mrs. Lincoln taken that she hoped to hide from the president?
40. Why would the election tide turn towards Lincoln?
41. What offer would he make to southern slaveholders?
42. What was the reaction of the Confederate leadership?
43. What did Lincoln say in his second inaugural address about the suffering resulting from the war?
44. What happened in early April 1865?
45. After Lee surrendered what two things did Lincoln propose?
46. Who would plan to stop Lincoln from rebuilding the nation?
47. When and where was Lincoln shot?
48. What did Secretary of War Stanton say?
49. What was the reaction in the white South?
50. What happened one week after his death?
51. What happened to Mrs. Lincoln?
52. What might have happened if Lincoln had survived his second term of office?
53. How do historians view Lincoln?