Quiz Me! - Documents: Civil War/Reconstruction

Test your knowledge about documents in the Civil War/Reconstruction era.

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Identify the source of the following quote: “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

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In which speech did Abraham Lincoln conclude, “Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

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Which of the following are TRUE regarding the Gettysburg Address?

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When Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, he…

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What allowed individuals to claim 160 acres of non-occupied land by paying a nominal fee and living on the land for 5 years?

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What was a result of the Homestead Act?

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In what speech did Abraham Lincoln state, “...that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”?

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The Constitution of the Confederate States of America was largely based on what document?

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What was Lincoln’s goal at the time of his Second Inaugural Address?

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What document declared slaves in rebelling states to be “forever free”?

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