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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Lincoln introduce legislation to Congress for gradual emancipation of the slaves in the border states, but the measure failed?
(a) July, 1861.
(b) September, 1863.
(c) October, 1863.
(d) July, 1862.

2. 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?
(a) The Union of America.
(b) The Confederate States of America.
(c) The Rebel Forces of America.
(d) The Lower Confederacy.

3. What was the name of a proposed Central American colony suggested by United States Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas in 1862?
(a) Pomeroy Island.
(b) New America.
(c) Lincoln Island.
(d) Linconia.

4. 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) Conventionalism.
(b) Conservative interventionalism.
(c) Diplomaticism.
(d) Non-interventionism.

5. What state had already mostly returned to Union control, so it was not named and was exempted from the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) Texas.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Tennessee.

6. Who was an anti-slavery activist who was active in the New York Committee of Vigilance and the Underground Railroad and helped Frederick Douglass escape to freedom?
(a) Martin Van Buren.
(b) David Ruggles.
(c) John P. Hale.
(d) William Lloyd Garrison.

7. When did Abraham Lincoln first meet with Frederick Douglass?
(a) September, 1864.
(b) June, 1865.
(c) September, 1862.
(d) August, 1863.

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

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

10. 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?
(a) The Confiscation Act of 1861.
(b) The Confiscation Act of 1850.
(c) The Confiscation Act of 1865.
(d) The Confiscation Act of 1881.

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

12. What refers to a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates?
(a) War Democrats.
(b) The Copperheads.
(c) The Liberty Party.
(d) The Free Soil Party.

13. Where did Lincoln give a speech during the 1860 presidential campaign in which he stated that the Republicans did not want to change slavery in states where it already existed, but only wanted to stop it from expanding?
(a) Penn State.
(b) New York University.
(c) The Cooper Institute.
(d) The U.S. State House.

14. Stephen A. Douglas was a candidate for what party in the 1860 presidential election?
(a) Democratic Party.
(b) Whig Party.
(c) Republican Party.
(d) Libertarian Party.

15. What state asked to be entered into the Union as a separate state, agreeing that all black children born after July 1863 would be free?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or especially a political entity?

2. To Lincoln,abolishing slavery in what state was the most important step because it was the only state in the South in which he attempted to apply his plan for Reconstruction as he had in Missouri and Tennessee?

3. The Emancipation Proclamation proclaimed the freedom of how many of the nation's slaves?

4. The Constitutional Union Party was also known as what in the state of California?

5. During the 1860 presidential campaign, Lincoln promoted the Republican Party as what kind of party, despite their views on slavery?

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