Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz - Test Your Knowledge of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln

1. On the night he was assassinated, April 14, Lincoln attended Ford's Theater to see which play?

Julius Caesar

Our American Cousin

Aladdin

Henry III

King Cotton

2. Who assassinated President Lincoln?

Raymond Lee Harvey

John Wilkes Booth

Leon Czolgosz

Sara Jane Moore

Lynette Fromme

3. On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union where?

Potomac River

Appomattox Court House

White House

Fredericksburg

Vicksburg

4. Lincoln lost in what eponymous debate over slavery in 1858?

Lincoln-Washington

Jefferson-Madison

Lincoln-Clay

Lincoln-Douglas

Lincoln-Frederick

5. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ushered in what event?

Secession

Succession

Slavery

Anti-bellum

Republicanism

6. The Lincoln Memorial was designed based on what famous structure?

The Colosseum

The Temple of Artemis

The Roman Forum

The Parthenon

The Taj Mahal

7. Two years after the start of the Civil War, Lincoln signed what document?

The Emancipation Proclamation

The Thirteenth Amendment

The Bill of Rights

The Writ of Habeas Corpus

The War Act

8. Lincoln spoke the following on what battlefield "...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"?

Antietam

Sharpsburg

Shiloh

Gettysburg

Fredericksburg

9. Lincoln was the first of what party to win the presidency?

Democrat

Dixiecrat

Republican

Whig

Democratic-Republican

10. February was chosen for Black History Month because it featured two birthdays, Abraham Lincoln and who else?

Ronald Reagan

John Adams

Richard NIxon

Frederick Douglass

George Bush