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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. William H. Seward was the 12th governor of what state?
(a) New York.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Illinois.

2. When was William H. Seward born?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1801.
(d) 1795.

3. What candidate was presented by the Constitutional Union Party in the 1860 presidential election?
(a) John C. Bell.
(b) John P. Hale.
(c) Zachary Taylor.
(d) James Anderson.

4. 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) October, 1863.
(c) September, 1863.
(d) July, 1862.

5. Where was Stephen A. Douglas from?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Indiana.

6. During the 1860 presidential campaign, Lincoln promoted the Republican Party as what kind of party, despite their views on slavery?
(a) Liberal.
(b) Fiscal.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Conservative.

7. When was Congress called to special session in which a bill was passed declaring the war had nothing to do with slavery but was being fought in order to preserve the Constitution?
(a) July, 1861.
(b) September, 1862.
(c) October, 1862.
(d) June, 1860.

8. What Pennsylvania governor was a staunch defender of the war effort and Lincoln Administration policies during the Civil War?
(a) George B. McClellan.
(b) Zachary Taylor.
(c) Henry Clay.
(d) Andrew Gregg Curtin.

9. 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) William Lloyd Garrison.
(b) David Ruggles.
(c) John P. Hale.
(d) Martin Van Buren.

10. 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 Lower Confederacy.
(d) The Rebel Forces of America.

11. The Battle of Antietam was fought on what date?
(a) October 11, 1860.
(b) September 12, 1863.
(c) November 12, 1860.
(d) September 17, 1862.

12. The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and in what year?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1860.

13. 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) West Virginia.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Kentucky.

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

15. 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 1865.
(b) The Confiscation Act of 1861.
(c) The Confiscation Act of 1881.
(d) The Confiscation Act of 1850.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did West Virginia abolish slavery?

3. In what year was John C. Breckinridge born?

4. What is the political principle that the legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people, who are the source of all political power?

5. In the context of the American Civil War, what refers to slave states that did not declare their secession from the United States before April 1861?

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