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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year did West Virginia abolish slavery?
(a) 1831.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1795.

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

4. 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 1881.
(b) The Confiscation Act of 1861.
(c) The Confiscation Act of 1850.
(d) The Confiscation Act of 1865.

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

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

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

8. When did the United States Civil War begin?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1862.

9. What, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War?
(a) The MSA.
(b) The Trent Affair.
(c) The Mason Affair.
(d) The British Affair.

10. Where was John C. Fremont commanding forces during the war and freeing the slaves of rebels whom he executed?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Missouri.

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

12. Where was General Benjamin F. Butler assigned when he decided not to send a group of escape slaves back to their owners?
(a) Fort Wayne.
(b) Fort Amador.
(c) Fortress Monroe.
(d) Fortress Jackson.

13. When was Frederick Douglass born?
(a) 1821.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1882.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Lincoln issue a Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?

2. What refers to a trend of thought that favors equality of some sort among moral agents, whether persons or animals?

3. What term means to seize as forfeited to the public domain; appropriate, by way of penalty, for public use?

4. Who was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee?

5. The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and in what year?

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