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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was John C. Breckinridge born?
(a) 1821.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1818.

2. 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 1865.
(c) The Confiscation Act of 1881.
(d) The Confiscation Act of 1861.

3. When did Abraham Lincoln first meet with Frederick Douglass?
(a) August, 1863.
(b) June, 1865.
(c) September, 1862.
(d) September, 1864.

4. When was William H. Seward born?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1801.
(d) 1866.

5. Where was Frederick Douglass born?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Texas.
(c) Maryland.
(d) Kentucky.

6. When did Lincoln publicly relieve John C. Fremont of command?
(a) September 14, 1875.
(b) October 15, 1862.
(c) November 2, 1861.
(d) July, 12, 1862.

7. What candidate was presented by the Constitutional Union Party in the 1860 presidential election?
(a) Zachary Taylor.
(b) John C. Bell.
(c) James Anderson.
(d) John P. Hale.

8. What group in American politics of the 1860s were adherents of the Democratic Party who demanded a more aggressive policy toward the Confederacy and supported the policies of President Abraham Lincoln when the Civil War broke out?
(a) The Free Soilers.
(b) The Copperheads.
(c) Forty-Eighters.
(d) War Democrats.

9. The Emancipation Proclamation proclaimed the immediate freedom of how many of the nation's slaves?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 15,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 10,000.

10. What is the political principle that the legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people, who are the source of all political power?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Conservatism.
(d) Popular sovereignty.

11. Who was a major general during the American Civil War and organized the famous Army of the Potomac?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) George B. McClellan.
(c) Zachary Taylor.
(d) Andrew Gregg Curtin.

12. Where did Lincoln give a speech during the 1860 presidential campaign in which he stated that the Republicans did not want to change slavery in states where it already existed, but only wanted to stop it from expanding?
(a) New York University.
(b) The Cooper Institute.
(c) The U.S. State House.
(d) Penn State.

13. The Emancipation Proclamation did not pertain to the slaves in the border states, leaving nearly how many people in bondage?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 4 million.
(c) 2 million.
(d) 1 million.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or especially a political entity?

2. What were Europeans who participated in or supported the revolutions of 1848 that swept Europe called?

3. In what year did Maryland abolish slavery?

4. When did Lincoln publish his Emancipation Proclamation?

5. When did the Civil War in America end?

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