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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. How does the Confederate Captain John Wilkinson slip through the blockade in 1864?
(a) By pretending to be British.
(b) By hiding in inlets and traveling at night.
(c) By pretending to be from Boston.
(d) By pretending to be a Union officer.

2. 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?
(a) William T. Sherman.
(b) John A. Dix.
(c) John A. Pope.
(d) Ulysses S. Grant.

3. Which famous church is raided and looted by Union troops in 1861?
(a) New Hope Church.
(b) Ambrose Chapel Church.
(c) Pohick church.
(d) St. Croix.

4. Which Democratic supporter gives a speech during the 1864 campaigns claiming that emancipation will make postwar reunion difficult?
(a) Horatio Seymour.
(b) Clement Vallandingham.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) George B. McClellan.

5. Why does Lincoln feel the need to censure John Fremont?
(a) Fremont is a Confederate supporter.
(b) Fremont's actions are political and outside his realm of power.
(c) Fremont is a Confederate spy.
(d) Lincoln believes Fremont is part of an assassination plot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the significance of Ex parte Milligan?

2. According to President Lincoln, why would many civilian detainees have been in prison even with the right of habeas corpus?

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

4. Who is the presidential nominee for the Democratic party in 1864?

5. As a congressman in 1848, why doesn't Lincoln want to wait for a constitutional amendment?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Mexican-American War influence Lincoln's perception of Constitutional issues?

2. Describe Ex parte Milligan.

3. How does Clement Vallandingham's arrest affect the political climate of the North?

4. Who is Wes Bogan?

5. Why is the Banshee declared an agent of the Confederacy?

6. Why does Horatio Seymour quote Lord Coke, by saying, "Where courts of law are open, martial law cannot be executed?"

7. What concerns do Union officials have about rebel defectors who claim to be seeking asylum in the Union?

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

9. How does Lincoln explain his decision to suspend the writ of habeas corpus?

10. Why does Joseph G. Knapp complain to Edward Bates?

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