Abraham Lincoln

Fredrick Douglass said:

"Abraham Lincoln is neither our man nor our model... He was preeminetly the whit man's president."

Which of the following statements did lincoln make about his learning?

"I'll study and get ready, and then chance will come."

What did Booth say after he shot Lincoln?

"Sic semper Tyrannus"

What quote from Lorado Taft was said about The Standing Lincoln?

"Standing before it, is like standing before the soul of America.

Translate "Sic semper Tyrannus"

"Thus, onto tyrants

What did he say when he signed the Emancipation Proclimation?

"We have finally got the harpoon in the monster, slavery."

To some people, Lincoln abused presidental power and became s dictator because...

...He limited Civil Rights and had vocal opponents arrested.

Lincoln's "Meditation of the Divine will" was...

...a personal document where Lincoln tried to reconcile the meaning of the Civil War.

Lincoln's House divided speech was...

...based on the Gospel of Mark and Matthew, and given when he accepted the nomination forthe Republican candidate for the Illinois Senate seat.

Transactional is employd by leaders because...

...it works and it's practical.

With reguard to Mary's spendthrift habits, Lincoln...

...paid the difference out of his own pocket.

Lincoln the Hoosier Youth represents Lincoln (1) _________ mannual labor, and (2) _________ intellectual labor.

1 - Rejecting 2 - Accepting

Borglum was (1) ______, was a (2) _____ _____, and had a (3) _____ ___ ______!

1 - racist 2 - nasty human 3 - nasty ass temper

Slavery was abolished in the US with the ____ _________.

13th Amendment

Abraham Lincoln was the ____ president.

16th

When was Abraham Lincoln born?

1809

Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in ____.

1922

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address lasted _ _______.

2 minutes

More than any person in the US, Lincoln has ___ statues in America.

250

Traces of Lincoln's "Meditation of the Divine Will" can be found in the ___ _________

2nd Inaugural

Which Illinois Circuit did Lincoln serve as an attorney?

8th

Define Hagiography

A form of bias

In 1864, what is Lincoln's blind memorandum about?

A statement of how he probably won't be reelected in 1864, and would have to work with the incoming president to end the war the and secure peace with the south.

Goodwin argues that Lincoln revealed early on a quality that would characterize his leadership for the rest of his life. What is that trait?

A willingness to anknowlege errors and learn from his mistakes

_____ ________ was one of the best composers in Ameriaca, who composed _______ ________ in 1942, an Orchestral arrangament in Lincoln's words.

Aaron Copeland, Lincoln Portrait

Who delivered the Cornerstone speech?

Alexander Stephens

The POW camp that held 13000 soilders was called ______________ _______.

Andersonville, Georgia

The battle most associated with the Emancipation Proclimation was the battle of ________.

Antietam

The civil war eventually came to close when Lee surrendered to Grant in where?

Appomattox, Court House, Virginia

The capture of _______ propelled Lincoln to victory in the 1864 election.

Atlanta

The Standing Lincoln was created by ________ _____ _______ in ____.

Augustus Saint Gaudens, 1887

What kind of school did Lincoln tell people he attended?

Blab School

Lincoln served as a Captain in the Illinois Malitia during the _____ ____ ___

Black Hawk War

What are the principles articulated in the Cornerstone Speech?

Blacks were unequal to Whites, and slavery is their natural contition

The Empancipation/Freedom's Monument statue is a/n: A - Portrait B - Allegorical C - Portrait-Allegorical

C

In 1848, Lincoln crafted a Congressional Bill that proposed for what?

Calling a Constitiutional Amandment to abolish slavery

Who was also born on the same day the Lincoln was born?

Charles Darwin

Northern Democrats who supported slavery and felt the North should craft a negotiated peace with the South were known as ___________.

Copperheads

The principles Lincoln aticulated in the Gettysburg Adress were rooted in his admiration of the__________ __ ____________.

Declaration of Independence

Which of Lincoln's cabinet members hated is stories and jokes?

Edwin Stanton

Who is Lincoln's Secretary of War?

Edwin Stanton

True or False: Leonard Volk was a great sculptor.

False

Who told Lincoln that his 2nd innagural was "a sacred effort"?

Fredrick Douglass

The Union general who frustrated Lincoln in the early part of his presidency was ______ _. ________.

George B. McClellan

Lincoln was created by ______ ____ _______ in ____.

George Gray Barnard, 1917

The March to the Sea burned a path of destruction 300 miles long and 60 miles wide. Which state was most affcted?

Georgia

On what commemorative time was Lincoln assassinated?

Good Friday

Which two European nations decide to not join the Confederacy after Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclimation?

Great Britain and Fance

Lincoln of Gethsemane was created by ______ _______ in ____.

Gutzon Borglum, 1911

How did Lincoln learn?

He read out loud so two senses go integrate verse and prose

What was the way Lincoln dealt with his anger at people?

He writes out his frustrations on paper and doesn't send them.

The Lincoln Memorial was created by _____ _____ & ______ _______ ______ in ____.

Henry Bacon, Daniel Chester French, 1922

Who was Lincoln's political hero?

Henry Clay

Lincoln's first political position was as an elected member to the ________ ___________.

Illinois Legislature

Why did Lincoln believe the word was man's greatest invention?

It gives human beings the power to talk with the bead, absent, and the unborn.

Lincoln the Mystic was created by _____ _____ ______ in ____.

James Earle Fraser, 1930

Lincoln's two personal secrataries were ____ ___ and ____ _. _______.

John Hay, John G. Nicolay

Abraham Lincoln's Assassin is ____ ______ _____.

John Wilkes Booth

Lincoln's closest freind in his early years in Springfield was ______ _____.

Joshua Speed

Borglum was a ___ ______.

KKK member

Lincoln lived in these following states:

Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois

Lincoln Life Mask and Hands was created by _______ ____ in ____.

Leonard Volk, 1860

On The Lincoln Memorial, his Right hand is open to represent what?

Lincoln's compasion empathy

On The Lincoln Memorial, his Left hand is closed to represent what?

Lincoln's resolve to keep the nation together

Lincoln was sent to where?

Manchester, England

Many scholars believe the civil rights movment began at what?

Marrion Anderson's concert

Abraham Lincoln proposed mairage to ____ ____

Mary Todd

Which state did the Emancipation NOT apply to?

Maryland

What is a physical reminder of the reunification of the nation?

Memorial Bridge

Gutzon Borglum also scupted _____ ________.

Mount Rushmore

Define "Inscrutable" means:

Mysterious and Unknowing

When Lincoln was 21 years old, he left his family and settled in ___ _____.

New Salem

Lincoln the Hoosier Youth was created by ____ _______ in ____.

Paul Manship, 1932

The Kansas-Nebrsska Act created what?

Popular Sovereignty

Which of Lincoln's Cabinet members instigated the Cabinet Crisis of December 1862?

Salmon P. Chase

Who was Lincoln's Secratary of Treasury?

Salmon P. Chase

The Empancipation/Freedom's Monument is called the "____ _____ ______" by activists.

Shoe Shine Statue

What was never mentioned on the Lincoln Memorial?

Slavery

In the Lincoln Memorial dedication, Robert Moten wrote a speech, but was forced to change it. Why?

Slavery was not supposed to be mentioned, only the reunification of America.

The Illinois town where Lincoln eventually settled down to practice law was ___________.

Springfield

Who was reffered to as the "Little Giant"?

Stephen A. Douglass

What kind of job did Lincoln take when he moved into his new town upon the age of 21?

Store Clerk in general store

When Lee surendered, Grant didn't take him prisoner, and his men were allowed to go home. This shows that Grant...

That Grant was keeping pace with and respecting Lincoln's philosophy of treating the Confederates with compassion

Whith reguard to slavery, what did Lincoln conclude?

The Framers of the Constitution expected it to wither away naturally and never intended it to spread.

On sides of the temple, what are the two speeches he gave?

The Gettysburg Adress and 2nd Innagural

As a member of the House of Representatives Lincoln introduced what has become known as the Spot Resolution. This resolution reflected his opposition to ___ _______ ___.

The Mexican War

What building in Washington DC did Lincoln insist remain under construction during the Civil war?

The US Capitol

According to Lincoln, what is the greatest invention?

The Word

In 1841, what event led Lincoln to believe he lost his "chief gem"?

The breaking of his engagment

The Republican Party's platform when it was founded was that what?

The spread of slavery should be stopped.

What was the problem with the system for Illinois Whigs in the 1840s?

They had a rotation agreement where those elected could only serve one term.

In the Lincoln Memorial dedication, 75 African Americans were in the VIP. However, 21 decide to leave. Why?

They were forced to sit in the back.

Which of Lincoln's children died in 18t62, during Lincoln's presidency?

Thomas (Tad)

The Empancipation/Freedom's Monument was created by ______ ____ in ____.

Thomas Ball, 1876

What did Abraham Lincoln believe that every American have the right to?

To be given a fair chance at the race of life.

True or False: Leonard Volk was a great mask maker.

True

True or False: Lincoln had a phenominal memory.

True

True or False: Lincoln possessed a profound sense of empathy.

True

True or False: Lincoln was self confident.

True

In 1846 Lincoln was elected to the __ _____ __ _______________.

US House of Representatives

The general who leads the Union to victory is _______ _. _____.

Ulysses S. Grant

What political party did Lincoln first join?

Whig Party

Lincoln's law partner who eventually wrote an early biography of Lincoln was _______ _______.

William Herndon

Who is Lincoln's Secretary of State?

William Seward

What playwright did Lincon like?

William Shakespeare

Who captured Atlanta?

William Sherman

Who was the Union General who led the March to the Sea?

William Sherman

In 1848 who did Lincoln support for the Presidency?

Zachary Taylor

Lincoln of Gethsemane was sculpted so he was __________.

accessible

In 1832, Lincoln said each man is said to have his peculiar ________.

ambition

Lincoln confined to those closet to him that he wanted to do something to __ __________.

be remembered

All sculptors are ___________.

buisnessmen

Lincoln's _______ signs the blind memorandum.

cabinet

St. Gaudens combines _________ _ ____________ art in The Standing Lincoln

classic & contemperary

Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclimation based upon his powers as _________ __ _____.

commander in chief

The best example of Abraham Lincoln as a "transformational leader" is when he _________ ___ ___ _________.

delivered the 2nd inaugural

Lincoln was supposed to be representing the __________ ___.

democratic man

As a writer, Lincoln was clear, concise, and _________.

effective

Because of the loss of his "chief gem", Lincoln ____ ____ __________.

fell into depresion

After the battle of Antietam, Lincoln fired general Geoge B. McClellan bucause he refused to ______ _________ ______.

follow Lincon's orders

The Empancipation/Freedom's Monument was paid by ______ ______.

former slaves

Lincoln believed the "chief gem" of his character was ___ _____ _______.

his great empathy

Since he had little executive experience, Lincoln needed his cabinet to be men of experience, what was markedly different from his cabinet was that he appointed people who were ___ _________ ______.

his political rivals

Marrion Anderson is one of the greatest ________ ______ of all time.

operetic voices

In 1860, Lincoln wrote a brief biography where he said: "My life can be summed in a single sentence: The short, simple annals of the ____"

poor

After his one term in Congress Lincoln returned to Springfield, Illinois to run for the ________ ___.

practice law

Before issuing the Emancipation Proclimation, Lincoln made sure he had ______ _________.

public sentiment

Mary Lincoln exceeded the allocated amount of money needed for ____________ ___ _____ _____.

redecorating the White House

Historians studying leadership argue that __________, the ability to sustain ambition in the face of frustration is the heart of potential leader growth.

resilience

The Standing Lincoln shows Lincoln as a _________.

statesman

Lincoln believed his mind was like a peice of _____.

steel

In the 1840s running for political office was called ________, a term we still use today.

stumping

Licoln was auto-didactic. This means he ______ _______.

taught himself

With reguard to gauging how to be a political success Lincoln believed the mos important thing an elected offical needed to succeed was __ ____ ______ _________.

to have public sentiment

To make a point, lincoln often ____ _______.

told stories

What quotes did Lincoln say?

• "Everyone likes a compliment." • "We cannot dedicate, we cannot hallow this ground." • "With malice towards none. With charity to all."

What events happened in 1863?

• 54th Massechusetts the first offically recruited African American Regiment went into battle at Fort Wagner • NYC draft riots • Fall of Vicksburg, Misissippi

List three things that happened in the Lincoln memorial:

• Mr Smith goes to Washington (1939) • Marrion Anderson concert • Martin Luther King speech

What are three types of public monuments?

• Portrait • Allegorical • Portrait-Allegorical

The Gettysburg Adress:

• Redefined what it means to be American • Extend Thomas Jefferson's promise to all Americans • Became enshrined as a peice of American civil religion