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Quiz for Document 15–1: President Lincoln’s War Aims

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. How did Lincoln’s war aims change over the course of the Civil War?

While his first aims were to abolish slavery, he ended the war as retaliation against plantation owners.

He had begun the war to expand slavery but turned it into a war to destroy slavery.

At first he aimed to abolish slavery, but in the end he focused only on maintaining the Union.

While he had begun the war to preserve the Union, he widened it to become a war to abolish slavery.

2. In the Emancipation Proclamation, what actions did Lincoln encourage freed slaves to take?

Remain peaceful, work for wages if they could, and join the Union’s military if they desired

Retaliate with violence against their masters and take over the plantations

Immediately flee to northern states and find more profitable means of employment

Prepare to return to Africa if they desired

3. According to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, what principles were at stake in the war?

Universal human rights

America’s Christian heritage

The principles of free labor and free trade

The founding principles of the nation