1. Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation offered gradual emancipation and what to border states and any states that returned voluntarily to the Union?
(a) Freedom.
(b) The right to vote.
(c) Consequences.
(d) Compensation.

2. Who founded the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator?
(a) John P. Hale.
(b) David Ruggles.
(c) Martin Van Buren.
(d) William Lloyd Garrison.

3. What refers to goods that a neutral nation cannot supply to a belligerent nation except at the risk of seizure and confiscation?
(a) Allimony.
(b) Embargo.
(c) Contraband.
(d) Contractual entity.

4. What U.S. Senator of Missouri submitted a joint resolution for a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery on January 11, 1864?
(a) John B. Henderson.
(b) Martin Van Buren.
(c) John P. Hale.
(d) John Quincy Adams.

5. The Dred Scott Decision was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants) were what?
(a) Freed men.
(b) Protected by the Constitution.
(c) Not protected by the Constitution.
(d) Free to vote.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the US?

2. When did the the Supreme Court hand down the Dred Scott Decision?

3. On what historic date did General Benjamin F. Butler decide not to send a group of escape slaves back to their owners?

4. As they campaigned for the Senate in 1858, Lincoln and his supporters decided to invite who to debate the issues?

5. When was the Wisconsin Enabling Act enacted?

(see the answer key)

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