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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which country continues to import cotton from the South during the Civil War?
(a) Mexico.
(b) France.
(c) Canada.
(d) Great Britain.

2. In Chapter 9, what does Andrew D. Duff predict President Lincoln will not allow in November of 1864?
(a) Public assemblies.
(b) Thanksgiving.
(c) Voting.
(d) Travel.

3. Which famous politician addresses the mistreatment of unpopular minorities in the Lyceum Address?
(a) George B. McClellan.
(b) John Quincy Adams.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

4. Who are the Copperheads?
(a) Former Confederates who work for the Union.
(b) Union spies working behind Confederate lines.
(c) Northern Democrats who oppose the Civil War.
(d) Republicans who oppose the Civil War.

5. What does the War Department do when James Hamilton reveals the horrors he suffered as a hostage?
(a) Burn the bordering farms and villages.
(b) Offer him remuneration.
(c) Induce similar conditions at the Fort Delaware prison.
(d) Attack the Confederate prison and release the Union POWs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the significance of Ex parte Milligan?

2. In Chapter 5, what do some of the men that Watson has arrested offer Charles Dana?

3. What happens to Assistant Judge William M. Merrick in Chapter 1?

4. What book does David M. Dewitt write in 1895 about the trial of Mary Surratt?

5. What does the "Fishing Creek Confederacy" protest?

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