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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the military strategy which orders the complete destruction of enemy property or resources?
(a) Napoleonic policy.
(b) A scorched earth policy.
(c) Maneuver warfare.
(d) Attrition warfare.

2. What order does Ulysses S. Grant give General Philip Sheridan in Chapter 4?
(a) Take only what is needed from the farms and villages.
(b) Burn all factories, but leave farms and gardens intact.
(c) Conscript all men under 30, regardless of race.
(d) Conscript all men under 50 and destroy their means of subsistence.

3. How do the Confederates plan on reacting to Grant's order in Chapter 4?
(a) Arrest Union citizens to use in hostage exchanges.
(b) Conscript Union citizens as Confederate soldiers.
(c) Burn all the farms and villages north of the border.
(d) Hide in the woods and snipe Union soldiers as they pass.

4. Who is nicknamed the "Beast of New Orleans"?
(a) Samuel E. Perkins.
(b) Joseph Griffin.
(c) Benjamin F. Butler.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

5. When is Abraham Lincoln inaugurated?
(a) January 20, 1862.
(b) November 2, 1864.
(c) March 4, 1861.
(d) May 1, 1860.

6. What is the verdict in Joseph Griffin's case?
(a) Mr. Griffin is jailed for being a Confederate sympathizer.
(b) Captain Wilcox does have the right to arrest Mr. Griffin.
(c) Captain Wilcox does not have the right to arrest Mr. Griffin.
(d) Mr. Griffin is awarded damages equaling the cost of his inventory.

7. What precedent is set in Joseph Griffin's case?
(a) Suspected sympathizers have no rights.
(b) The suspension of habeas corpus legalizes military arrest.
(c) The suspension of habeas corpus does not legalize wrongful arrest.
(d) Financial remuneration must be given to private citizens.

8. Who are the Prisoners of State?
(a) Union military felons.
(b) Civilians arrested by the military.
(c) Uniformed Confederate captives.
(d) Felons captured behind enemy lines.

9. Who are the Copperheads?
(a) Former Confederates who work for the Union.
(b) Northern Democrats who oppose the Civil War.
(c) Republicans who oppose the Civil War.
(d) Union spies working behind Confederate lines.

10. What does Attorney General Edward Bates prepare for President Lincoln in Chapter 1?
(a) A list of Confederate supporters.
(b) A Jacksonian defense.
(c) A list of Maryland lawmakers who may be arrested.
(d) A collection of international civil liberty laws.

11. What nickname is given to President Lincoln?
(a) Honest Abe.
(b) The Beast of New Orleans.
(c) The Writ Rewriter.
(d) Old Black Soot.

12. Who is Edwin M. Stanton?
(a) Lincoln's Secretary of State.
(b) A Brigadier General of the Union Army.
(c) Lincoln's Secretary of War.
(d) The Attorney General.

13. What does Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles confide in his diary?
(a) He is concerned about the impact of paid servants on the economy.
(b) He fears the Confederacy might win.
(c) He is terrified of revolt from Northern facotry workers.
(d) He never feared revolt from Northern citizens.

14. What unusual qualities does Henry W. Halleck have in a leader?
(a) He is well read, intelligent and also has great physical strength.
(b) He speaks both the language of the law and the language of the people.
(c) He has written about international law and observes legal niceties.
(d) He has a natural charisma that attracts all voters.

15. Who intervenes on John Eitel's behalf?
(a) Charles A. Dana.
(b) President Lincoln.
(c) Millard Fillmore.
(d) James Buchanan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which bill, passed in 1863, removes the cracks between military and civilian justice?

2. Which fraudulent company's office does the War Department raid in 1864?

3. What happens to Assistant Judge William M. Merrick in Chapter 1?

4. Which book of John A. Marshall's is well read among Lincoln's critics?

5. Why are judges still issuing writs of habeas corpus in Chapter 3?

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