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

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

3. What decision does Lincoln make on April 27, 1861?
(a) He decides to send troops into the South.
(b) He makes plans to reunite America.
(c) He announces the Emancipation Proclamation.
(d) He suspends writ of habeas corpus on rail routes from Philadelphia to Washington.

4. What decision does General John C. Frymont make about Joseph Aubuchon?
(a) He arrests Aubuchon for interfering in military trials.
(b) He upholds Aubuchon's conviction.
(c) He orders Aubuchon's execution.
(d) He overturns Aubuchon's conviction.

5. Why does William Seward feel it necessary to suspend the writ of habeas corpus?
(a) To silence political dissenters.
(b) In order to allow the arrest of Confederate spies.
(c) To preserve the organization and morale of national forces.
(d) To undermine any potential assassination plots.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 5, what does Pardon Worsley convince clerks from several prominent businesses that he has the permits and power to do?

4. To whom does President Lincoln have to explain his decision to suspend the writ of habeas corpus?

5. Who are the Prisoners of State?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Union officials react to reports of torture from prisoners of war?

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

3. How does General Grant respond to the guerrilla tactics of John Singleton Mosby?

4. Why is Dennis A. Mahony arrested?

5. How are Jews treated by the Union in Chapter 5?

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

7. Who is Chauncey Burr?

8. Why must President Lincoln explain his decision to suspend the writ of habeas corpus to Congress?

9. Why does General John C. Frymont close the St. Louis "State Journal" and declare martial law?

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

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