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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In January 1862, what Republican leader in the House called for total war against the rebellion to include emancipation of slaves, arguing that emancipation, by forcing the loss of enslaved labor, would ruin the rebel economy?
(a) Thaddeus Stevens.
(b) John P. Hale.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Henry Clay.

2. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation under his authority as what under Article II, section 2 of the United States Constitution?
(a) "Vice-President."
(b) "President."
(c) "Commander in Chief."
(d) "Sovereign Body."

3. What is a foreign policy which holds that political rulers should avoid alliances with other nations, but still retain diplomacy, and avoid all wars not related to direct self-defense?
(a) Conservative interventionalism.
(b) Non-interventionism.
(c) Diplomaticism.
(d) Conventionalism.

4. The Treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade was also known as what?
(a) The Trent Treaty.
(b) The Lyons-Seward Treaty.
(c) The Lincoln Treaty.
(d) The Mason-Swift Treaty.

5. The Emancipation Proclamation did not pertain to the slaves in the border states, leaving nearly how many people in bondage?
(a) 2 million.
(b) 4 million.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 1 million.

6. The Emancipation Proclamation proclaimed the freedom of how many of the nation's slaves?
(a) 6 million.
(b) 4.2 million.
(c) 4 million.
(d) 3.1 million.

7. In what year was John C. Breckinridge born?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1821.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1861.

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

9. How many slave states in the South immediately declared their independence when Lincoln was elected?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 11.
(d) 5.

10. When was the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, founded?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1831.
(d) 1795.

11. What refers to the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or especially a political entity?
(a) Indiscretion.
(b) Embargo.
(c) Succession.
(d) Secession.

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

13. What state was named in the Emancipation Proclamation, but exemptions were specified for the 48 counties then in the process of forming a new state?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Arkansas.

14. What term means to seize as forfeited to the public domain; appropriate, by way of penalty, for public use?
(a) Litigate.
(b) Confiscate.
(c) Aberrate.
(d) Arrogate.

15. When did Lincoln issue a Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) September, 1861.
(b) July, 1862.
(c) October, 1863.
(d) September, 1862.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was William H. Seward born?

2. What was an act of Congress during the early months of the American Civil War permitting the confiscation of any of property, including slaves, being used to support the Confederate insurrection?

3. When did Abraham Lincoln first meet with Frederick Douglass?

4. Where was Frederick Douglass born?

5. Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation stated that the South had until what date to return to Union or face the freeing of their slaves immediately?

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