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

2. What refers to the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or especially a political entity?
(a) Secession.
(b) Succession.
(c) Indiscretion.
(d) Embargo.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation under his authority as what under Article II, section 2 of the United States Constitution?

3. 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?

4. When did Lincoln introduce legislation to Congress for gradual emancipation of the slaves in the border states, but the measure failed?

5. Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation offered gradual emancipation and what to border states and any states that returned voluntarily to the Union?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did President Buchanan do in response to the secession of the Southern states in Chapter 5?

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

6. What actions did Secretary of State Seward take to further the colonialist cause during the Civil War? What problems were encountered?

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

8. What treatment did blacks receive in the Union Army, as described in Chapter 8?

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

10. Why did Lincoln initially refuse to allow blacks in the Union Army, as discussed in Chapter 7?

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