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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. Where was John C. Breckinridge born?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Kansas.

6. On what historic date did General Benjamin F. Butler decide not to send a group of escape slaves back to their owners?
(a) May 12, 1861.
(b) May 23, 1861.
(c) September 14, 1863.
(d) March 16, 1862.

7. What nickname did Stephen A. Douglas have in politics?
(a) "Giant Tortoise."
(b) "Little Giant."
(c) "Goliath."
(d) "The Great Bear."

8. The Constitutional Union Party was established in what year?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1851.

9. 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) Embargo.
(c) Contractual entity.
(d) Allimony.

10. 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) Non-interventionism.
(c) Conservative interventionalism.
(d) Diplomaticism.

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

12. Where did William H. Seward study law?
(a) Penn State.
(b) New York University.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Union College.

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

14. When was Stephen A. Douglas born?
(a) 1801.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1779.
(d) 1813.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What state had already mostly returned to Union control, so it was not named and was exempted from the Emancipation Proclamation?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. Stephen A. Douglas was a candidate for what party in the 1860 presidential election?

5. When was the American Colonization Society founded?

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