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Quiz on Abraham Lincoln: Key Facts and Events

Test your knowledge about Abraham Lincoln, his life, and his contributions to American history with this engaging quiz.

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1 When did Abraham Lincoln's term start?

2 Where did Abraham Lincoln die?

3 Who is Abraham Lincoln's spouse?

4 What is the nationality of Abraham Lincoln?

5 When did Abraham Lincoln die?

6 Dodge •

7 He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the ________, preserving the Union and ending slavery.

8 Originally, ________, a well-known actor and a Confederate spy from Maryland, had formulated a plan to kidnap Lincoln in exchange for the release of Confederate prisoners.

9 Which of the following battles did Abraham Lincoln take part in?

10 When is Abraham Lincoln's birthday?

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • as President of the College of New Jersey, John Maclean, Jr. conveyed a Doctor of Laws degree to President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
  • during the American Civil War, an early Union steam torpedo boat, USS Spuyten Duyvil, was used to clear obstructions so President Lincoln could visit the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia after General Lee's withdrawal.
  • early photographer Alexander Gardner was the last person to photograph American President Abraham Lincoln before his assassination—and also photographed the conspirators and their public execution.
  • although it twice elected Abraham Lincoln, New York in the American Civil War had his prominent Democrat critic, Horatio Seymour, as its governor.
  • German-born anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker's book Pioneers of American Freedom traces the origins of American anarchism back to Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln.
  • Mordecai Lincoln House in Washington County is the only home of a member of Abraham Lincoln's family that still stands in Kentucky.
  • William H. Mumler claimed to take a photograph (pictured) showing Mary Todd Lincoln with the spirit of her deceased husband, Abraham Lincoln.
  • former Governor of American Samoa Gatewood Lincoln was the first cousin once removed of Abraham Lincoln.
  • in 1862, Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas proposed the colony of Linconia to fulfill U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's vision for African-American emigration to Central America.
  • the Petersen House, where Abraham Lincoln died after being shot, contains the bloodstained pillow that Lincoln laid on.
  • when Abraham Lincoln's brother-in-law, Confederate Brig Gen. Benjamin Hardin Helm was killed at the Battle of Chickamauga, Lincoln's White House went into mourning.
  • the Georgia Marble Company supplied the marble used to build the statue of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial.
  • the Emancipation Oak located on the campus of Hampton University is where the Virginia Peninsula's black community gathered in 1863 to hear the first Southern reading of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
  • in its heyday, the historic Mountain Springs Hotel in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, hosted U.S. Presidents Lincoln, Grant, and Buchanan.
  • the Emancipation Memorial (pictured), a monument in Washington, DC depicting Abraham Lincoln in his role of the "Great Emancipator", was paid for by former slaves.
  • Lucy Lambert Hale, the secret fiancĂ©e of Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth, later married a United States Secretary of the Navy.
  • Lincoln Homestead State Park contains the house in which Abraham Lincoln's father Thomas proposed to his mother Nancy.
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1862 essay "Chiefly About War Matters" was censored because of his description of Abraham Lincoln.
  • Omaha gained an important place in the history of the First Transcontinental Railroad against the will of President Abraham Lincoln.
  • Abraham Lincoln, one of many American politicians known for past use of cannabis, wrote that one of his "favorite things" was "smoking a pipe of sweet hemp".
  • Abraham Lincoln's short speech at the Peekskill Freight Depot (pictured) was his only recorded public appearance in Westchester County.
  • Abraham Lincoln helped bury the dead at Kellogg's Grove following the second Battle of Kellogg's Grove during the Black Hawk War.
  • Abraham Lincoln's "earliest recollection" was of his boyhood home Knob Creek Farm (pictured).
  • Anderson Ruffin Abbott (pictured), the first licenced Black Canadian physician, attended Abraham Lincoln's death bed.
  • David Logan, onetime mayor of Portland, Oregon, studied law under later U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
  • Joseph H. Allen, a volunteer infantryman and the 21st supervisor of the Town of Brunswick in New York, was brevetted lieutenant colonel by Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
  • Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial (pictured) marks where Abraham Lincoln lived in Indiana, and where his sister and birth mother died.
  • John Hyson published articles on the history of the toothbrush, George Washington's dentures, and one entitled "Did You Know A Dentist Embalmed President Lincoln?".
  • James Guthrie was Abraham Lincoln's first choice for Secretary of War, but he declined the position due to age and failing health.
  • Edward D. Hamilton was appointed as the Secretary of the Oregon Territory after later U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declined the position.
  • Edward Rosewater (pictured) was the telegraph operator responsible for sending out Abraham Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation" in 1863.
  • Abraham Lincoln called the Beefsteak Raid "the slickest piece of cattle-stealing" he ever heard of.
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