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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who renders the final verdict in Ex parte Milligan?
(a) President Lincoln.
(b) The Supreme Court.
(c) Edward Bates.
(d) The Union Military Commission.

2. What is the significance of Ex parte Milligan?
(a) It recognizes the effect blockades have on local commerce.
(b) It controls the amount of goods the army can claim.
(c) It reduces the military's power to conduct civilian trials.
(d) It sets precedent for military remuneration.

3. Which General orders all blockade runners released in 1864?
(a) Edward Bates.
(b) William T. Sherman.
(c) Ulysses S. Grant.
(d) John A. Dix.

4. What is an "arbitrary arrest"?
(a) An arrest made on political grounds.
(b) An arrest that is made without due cause.
(c) An arrest of a suspected military spy.
(d) A government mandated arrest.

5. Why does President Lincoln pardon Wes Brogan?
(a) Because he does not want to damage the economy.
(b) He believes Mr. Brogan acted in self-defense.
(c) He wants to use Mr. Brogan as a Union spy.
(d) Because he does not believe in slavery.

6. Which iron side steamship rams the USS Niphon?
(a) The Steamship Calhoun.
(b) The Ella and Annie.
(c) The CSS Merrimac.
(d) The USS Constitution.

7. In Chapter 9, what does Andrew D. Duff predict President Lincoln will not allow in November of 1864?
(a) Thanksgiving.
(b) Public assemblies.
(c) Voting.
(d) Travel.

8. How does Maryland protest the military arrest of citizens?
(a) By marching a group of women and children to the White House.
(b) With satirical songs and pamphlets.
(c) By destroying railroads.
(d) By burning bridges.

9. To which military and political leader does James Bryce liken President Lincoln?
(a) Oliver Cromwell.
(b) Napoleon Bonaparte.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

10. Which famous politician addresses the mistreatment of unpopular minorities in the Lyceum Address?
(a) George B. McClellan.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) John Quincy Adams.

11. Which ship captures the Banshee in 1863?
(a) The USS Fulton.
(b) The CSS Alabama.
(c) The CSS Merrimac.
(d) The USS Monitor.

12. According to the laws of war, what happens to neutral crewmen when a neutral ship is confiscated?
(a) They are deported on the next available ship.
(b) They are allowed to pass with a military escort.
(c) They are arrested and considered prisioners of war.
(d) They may serve as legal witnesses, but are not POWs.

13. What does the War Department do when James Hamilton reveals the horrors he suffered as a hostage?
(a) Offer him remuneration.
(b) Induce similar conditions at the Fort Delaware prison.
(c) Attack the Confederate prison and release the Union POWs.
(d) Burn the bordering farms and villages.

14. In Chapter 7, which great blockade running port is the last to fall?
(a) Charleston, SC.
(b) Wilmington, NC.
(c) Savannah, GA.
(d) North Port, FL.

15. According to President Lincoln, why would many civilian detainees have been in prison even with the right of habeas corpus?
(a) Innocence is easily determined.
(b) The guilty are proven guilty.
(c) Friction and abrasion accompany war.
(d) Providence judges the unjust.

Short Answer Questions

1. In reviewing the "U.S. Army Court Martial Cases" of 1863-65, why does Lincoln sometimes disagree with Holt?

2. Why are modern historians unable to replicate or confirm Colonel F. C. Ainsworth's study?

3. Which Union general has President Lincoln's blessing to arrest all the men he wishes and freeing those who are willing to take an oath of allegiance?

4. What could the Wilmot Proviso possibly ban?

5. Which former President is almost arrested for being a Southern sympathizer during the Civil War?

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