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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What state had already mostly returned to Union control, so it was not named and was exempted from the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) Texas.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Tennessee.

2. Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation offered gradual emancipation and what to border states and any states that returned voluntarily to the Union?
(a) Consequences.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Compensation.
(d) The right to vote.

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

4. Where was Stephen A. Douglas from?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Nebraska.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the United States Civil War begin?

2. When was Congress called to special session in which a bill was passed declaring the war had nothing to do with slavery but was being fought in order to preserve the Constitution?

3. The Emancipation Proclamation proclaimed the immediate freedom of how many of the nation's slaves?

4. What, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War?

5. In what year did Maryland abolish slavery?

Short Essay Questions

1. What actions did John C. Fremont take with escaped slaves in Chapter 6?

2. When was the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation issued and what did it proclaim?

3. What state's slavery abolition was of greatest importance to Lincoln? Why?

4. What political strategies did Lincoln assert in Chapter 5? What issues were avoided and why?

5. What candidates were elected from the various parties for the 1860 presidential election?

6. What legislation did Abraham Lincoln introduce to Congress in July of 1862? What became of the legislation?

7. What led to John C. Fremont's removal from command in Chapter 6?

8. What military decision did General Benjamin F. Butler make in 1861 regarding escaped slaves?

9. What did Lincoln say in his inaugural address regarding the South? How was his speech received?

10. What was permitted by ordinance of the Second Confiscation Act?

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