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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. William H. Seward was the 12th governor of what state?
(a) Illinois.
(b) New York.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Indiana.

2. In what year did Maryland abolish slavery?
(a) 1831.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1865.

3. What was an act of Congress during the early months of the American Civil War permitting the confiscation of any of property, including slaves, being used to support the Confederate insurrection?
(a) The Confiscation Act of 1850.
(b) The Confiscation Act of 1881.
(c) The Confiscation Act of 1865.
(d) The Confiscation Act of 1861.

4. Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation stated that the South had until what date to return to Union or face the freeing of their slaves immediately?
(a) September 14, 1862.
(b) January 1, 1862.
(c) October 1, 1864.
(d) January 1, 1863.

5. When was the American Colonization Society founded?
(a) 1816.
(b) 1825.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1818.

6. Who was an anti-slavery activist who was active in the New York Committee of Vigilance and the Underground Railroad and helped Frederick Douglass escape to freedom?
(a) Martin Van Buren.
(b) John P. Hale.
(c) David Ruggles.
(d) William Lloyd Garrison.

7. When was the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, founded?
(a) 1864.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1831.
(d) 1795.

8. What, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War?
(a) The MSA.
(b) The Mason Affair.
(c) The British Affair.
(d) The Trent Affair.

9. What Pennsylvania governor was a staunch defender of the war effort and Lincoln Administration policies during the Civil War?
(a) George B. McClellan.
(b) Henry Clay.
(c) Andrew Gregg Curtin.
(d) Zachary Taylor.

10. What was the name of a major command of the United States Army during the 19th century which oversaw the military affairs in the country west of the Mississippi River to the borders of California and Oregon?
(a) Department of the Mississippi.
(b) Department of the West.
(c) Northwest Organization.
(d) Northwest Department.

11. On what historic date did General Benjamin F. Butler decide not to send a group of escape slaves back to their owners?
(a) September 14, 1863.
(b) May 12, 1861.
(c) March 16, 1862.
(d) May 23, 1861.

12. What state was named in the Emancipation Proclamation, but exemptions were specified for the 48 counties then in the process of forming a new state?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Tennessee.

13. Who was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee?
(a) Zachary Taylor.
(b) Stonewall Jackson.
(c) Clay Taylor.
(d) Henry Clay.

14. When did the Civil War in America end?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1865.

15. When did Lincoln issue a Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) September, 1861.
(b) October, 1863.
(c) September, 1862.
(d) July, 1862.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a trend of thought that favors equality of some sort among moral agents, whether persons or animals?

2. How many candidates did the Democratic Party present for the 1860 presidential election?

3. Where was Frederick Douglass born?

4. The Emancipation Proclamation did not pertain to the slaves in the border states, leaving nearly how many people in bondage?

5. How many slave states in the South immediately declared their independence when Lincoln was elected?

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