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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) Consequences.
(b) Compensation.
(c) Freedom.
(d) The right to vote.

2. Who was a major general during the American Civil War and organized the famous Army of the Potomac?
(a) George B. McClellan.
(b) Zachary Taylor.
(c) Henry Clay.
(d) Andrew Gregg Curtin.

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

4. In order to get around the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln allowed states in the South to hold what in which he required a majority of citizens to vote?
(a) A congressional election.
(b) An open election.
(c) A nationwide caucus.
(d) An all-black election.

5. What group in American politics of the 1860s were adherents of the Democratic Party who demanded a more aggressive policy toward the Confederacy and supported the policies of President Abraham Lincoln when the Civil War broke out?
(a) War Democrats.
(b) The Free Soilers.
(c) Forty-Eighters.
(d) The Copperheads.

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

7. In 1820, the American Colonization Society began sending black volunteers where to establish a colony for freed American slaves?
(a) The Gulf Coast.
(b) The Humboldt Coast.
(c) The Gold Coast.
(d) The Pepper Coast.

8. The Constitutional Union Party was made up primarily of former members of what political party?
(a) The Democratic Party.
(b) The Republican Party.
(c) The Liberty Party.
(d) The Whig Party.

9. The Constitutional Union Party was also known as what in the state of California?
(a) The Bell-Everett Party.
(b) The Free Soil Party.
(c) The Liberty Party.
(d) The Democratic Party.

10. 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) Tennessee.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Arkansas.

11. 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) June, 1860.
(b) July, 1861.
(c) September, 1862.
(d) October, 1862.

12. 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) The Cooper Institute.
(b) The U.S. State House.
(c) New York University.
(d) Penn State.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Lincoln issue a Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?

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

3. What, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War?

4. How many candidates did the Democratic Party present for the 1860 presidential election?

5. The Treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade was also known as what?

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