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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 war time legal practice is revived due to the rise of guerilla warfare in America?
(a) Hangings.
(b) Execution squads.
(c) Seizure of property.
(d) Military commissions.

2. Whom does General Grant expel from Tennessee for violating Treasury regulations?
(a) Edward Bates.
(b) All Jews.
(c) Confederate bankers.
(d) Joseph Law.

3. Which former President is nearly arrested in Chapter 1?
(a) James Buchanan.
(b) Zachary Taylor.
(c) Millard Fillmore.
(d) Franklin Pierce.

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

5. Why are judges still issuing writs of habeas corpus in Chapter 3?
(a) Broken rail lines have delayed official information.
(b) They are sympathetic to the Confederacy.
(c) They are waiting on a statement from the Supreme Court.
(d) Lincoln has yet to publicize his suspension of habeas corpus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which famous case will refer to Samuel Perkins' arguments in 1966?

2. How do Union Generals treat civilians who sell alcohol to their soldiers?

3. Why is Edmund J. Ellis banished from Missouri?

4. Dennis A. Mahony is editor of which newspaper in Chapter 3?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the purpose of the Enrollment Act?

2. Why do mobs from Baltimore burn bridges in 1861?

3. How does Lincoln's decision to suspend the writ of habeas corpus divide politicians in 1861?

4. What controversy arises between Peter H. Watson and a Union Senator in Chapter 5?

5. Why does Lincoln suspend the writ of habeas corpus of rail routes from Philadelphia to Washington in April of 1861?

6. Describe Abraham Lincoln.

7. Who is Ezra B. Chase?

8. How is the scorched earth policy used during the Civil War?

9. Why is Edmund J. Ellis banished from Missouri?

10. What is the result of Joseph Griffin's suit against Captain Frank Wilcox?

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