Q 01/05

In what year was Abraham Lincoln born?

A) 1807

B) 1809

C) 1811

D) 1805

Answer · why

B) 1809

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm, the second child of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln.

Q 02/05

Which national holiday did Lincoln proclaim in October 1863?

A) Thanksgiving

B) Memorial Day

C) Election Day

D) Armistice Day

Answer · why

A) Thanksgiving

Lincoln's October 1863 proclamation made Thanksgiving a national holiday on the last Thursday of November; magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale had lobb...

Q 03/05

What was the name of the theater where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?

A) National Theatre

B) Ford's Theatre

C) Grover's Theatre

D) Willard's Theatre

Answer · why

B) Ford's Theatre

Ford's Theatre is where Lincoln was shot in the presidential box on the night of April 14, 1865; soldiers carried him across the street, where he died...

Q 04/05

Which political party did Abraham Lincoln belong to when elected president?

A) Whig

B) Democratic

C) Republican

D) Free Soil

Answer · why

C) Republican

Lincoln was the first Republican president, elected in 1860. He had previously been a Whig but joined the newly formed Republican Party in the 1850s.

Q 05/05

What document did Lincoln sign on January 1, 1863, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free?

A) The Thirteenth Amendment

B) The Gettysburg Address

C) The Homestead Act

D) The Emancipation Proclamation

Answer · why

D) The Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863, declared that all enslaved people in Confederate states were to be set free. It did not imme...