Student Comparison Assignments

Mr. Lincoln’s White House – Cabinet
Friends – Cabinet
Compare and contrast Mr. Lincoln’s professional and personal relationships with two of his Cabinet members:

William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase
Edwin M. Stanton and Montgomery Blair
Simon Cameron and Smith

Friends – Preachers
Mr. Lincoln’s White House – Notable Visitors
Compare and contrast these members of the clergy and their relations with the Lincoln Administration:

Archbishop Hughes and Henry Ward Beecher
Phineas Gurley and Henry Bellows
Matthew Simpson and James Jacques
Peter Cartwright and James Smith

Mr. Lincoln’s White House – Generals
Mr. Lincoln and Friends – Officers
Compare and contrast President Lincoln’s relationships with two of his generals or admirals:

Ulysses S. Grant and George B. McClellan
Horace Porter and John Dahlgren
Benjamin Butler and John McClernand
Joseph Hooker and George Meade
Henry W. Halleck and Winfield Scott

Mr. Lincoln’s White House – Notable Visitors
Mr. Lincoln and New York – Editors
Mr. Lincoln and Friends – Journalists
Compare and contrast one pair of these New York editors and their relationships with the Lincoln Administration:

Horace Greeley with Henry J. Raymond
James Gordon Bennett and William Cullen Bryant
Manton Marble and Benjamin Wood
John Bigelow and James Watson Webb

Mr. Lincoln’s White House – Staff
Compare and contrast these presidential staffers and their relations to the Lincoln Family:

Elizabeth Keckley and Rebecca Pomroy
Benjamin French and William S. Wood
William O. Stoddard and Edward Duffield Neill

Mr. Lincoln’s White House – Congress
Mr. Lincoln and Freedom – Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Compare the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the Lincoln-Douglas debates to their relationships in the weeks after Fort Sumter:

Mr. Lincoln’s White House – Family
Friends – Sons
Compare and contrast the relationship between Mr. Lincoln and his oldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, and his surrogate son, John Hay.

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