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

2. What orders does President Lincoln give General Benjamin F. Butler and General-in-Chief Winfield Scott in Chapter 1?
(a) Arrest any who resist.
(b) Free those in chains, chain those who fight.
(c) Attack on sight.
(d) Watch, wait and be ready to respond.

3. Why does the War Department arrest telegraphers in four major cities in 1864?
(a) They refuse to telegraph a false message from the White House.
(b) They are suspected Confederate sympathizers.
(c) They fear the telegraph system has been compromised.
(d) They are telegraphing Union secrets across Confederate lines.

4. Whom does the Secretary of the Navy blame for the hoax published in the New York "World" and the "Journal of Commerce"?
(a) Charles Dana.
(b) Oliver Cromwell.
(c) Hamilton Easter.
(d) Frank A. Mallison.

5. Dennis A. Mahony is editor of which newspaper in Chapter 3?
(a) The "American Bastile."
(b) The "Merryman."
(c) The Dubuque "Herald."
(d) The Newark "Evening Journal."

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does William Seward feel it necessary to suspend the writ of habeas corpus?

2. What is the name of the military strategy which orders the complete destruction of enemy property or resources?

3. With what political party does President Lincoln associate the longest?

4. What does Samuel E. Perkins do in Chapter 4?

5. How are Confederate deserters often treated by Union troops in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Abraham Lincoln.

2. What is the result of Brigadier General Thomas Ewing's General Order No. 11?

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

4. How is the press used by the Confederate supporters in 1864 to create panic in New York?

5. How are military commissions used during the Civil War?

6. What controversy does General Paine create when he arrests 100 citizens?

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

8. Why does Lincoln admire Andrew Jackson?

9. Describe the purpose of the Habeas Corpus Act.

10. Who is Chauncey Burr?

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