[Although we no longer celebrate President Abraham Lincoln&#=
8217;s birthday with a day off school – are you old enough to remembe=
r how exciting it was to get Lincoln’s AND Washington’s birthda=
ys off? – we can celebrate the history of our sixteenth President with an e=
xciting quiz)
1. In 1834 Lincoln won an Illinois House seat as a can=
didate of the ____________ party.
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2. In the 1860 Presidential race he was n=
ominated in the __________ party.
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3. Iin 1864 he ran as the candidate of t=
he __________ party.
4. Most American voters in 1860 did not want Lincoln a=
s President, and he garnered the all-time low of ______% of the popular vot=
e. (Bill Clinton “won” be a similar percentage of popular vote)=
5. Abe’s V.P. in 1860 was _________ of Paris, Maine.
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6. In 1864 Abe ran fo=
r reelection against his wartime nemesis, the popular Democrat __________. =
7. The famous Lincoln-Douglas Debates were held across Illinois in 1858 as=
Abe was seeking election to the _____________ .
8. His son Robert Todd Lin=
coln held the position of ________________ under the administrations of Gar=
field and Arthur.
9. Lincoln served as the official spokesman in the West =
for the first Republican Presidential candidate ______________ in the 1856 =
election.
10. For the first time in history, a political party’s convention=
was held in Chicago, not __________ which may have helped Lincoln’s nomina=
tion.
11. Abe served just one term in the U.S. House representing Illinois =
where he took strong stand against the popular ____________, leading voters=
to reject his views and he failed to win reelection.
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12. Abraham Lincoln&#=
8217;s “Boyhood National Memorial” is in the state of _________=
____
13. Lincoln’s V.P. for re-election in 1864 was Andrew Johnson of Tenn=
essee, a life-long-member of the ____________ Party.
14. Lincoln remains th=
e tallest man elected President, at __________ tall, also with a size _____=
___ shoe.
15. Lincoln was the first President not born in one of the 13 ori=
ginal states; he was born in the state of ___________.
16. Lincoln is the =
most written-about character in American history, with ____________ books w=
ritten about him.
17. Lincoln’s son Robert was nearby when his fathe=
r was assassinated in 1865 and was also at the scene of the shooting of Pre=
sidents ___________ and ___________ .
18. The contents of Lincoln’s p=
ockets on the night of the assassination weren’t revealed until Febru=
ary 12, 1976. In addition to spectacles, a pocketknife, a linen handkerchie=
f, a gold watch fob without a watch, was a wallet containing $_____________=
__.
19. Lincoln had 4 sons, ___________, _____________, _____________, and=
____________ but left no direct descendants.
20. Lincoln is buried in ____=
__________, not Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia.
BONUS: In addition t=
o John F. Kennedy, what other Presidents are buried in Arlington National C=
emetery? __________________
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Dr Bob Griffin
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net
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