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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What Pennsylvania governor was a staunch defender of the war effort and Lincoln Administration policies during the Civil War?

3. In 1820, the American Colonization Society began sending black volunteers where to establish a colony for freed American slaves?

4. Who was the maternal grandmother who raised Frederick Douglass until the age of 7?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

5. When did Maryland, West Virginia, Missouri and Tennessee abolish slavery?

6. What did Lincoln write of his impressions of New Orleans as a young man?

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

8. What bill was passed by Congress in July of 1861?

9. What happened to the slaves who escaped to the Union in the beginning of the war, as described in Chapter 6?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the different abolitionist movements of the early 1800s. How did these movements differ in their philosophies of dealing with the emancipated slaves?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the actions of John C. Fremont and General Benjamin F. Butler. How were these men treated differently as a consequence of their actions and why?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the First and Second Confiscation Acts. How did each of these acts further the Union's cause?

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