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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Lincoln publicly relieve John C. Fremont of command?
(a) September 14, 1875.
(b) November 2, 1861.
(c) July, 12, 1862.
(d) October 15, 1862.

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

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

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

5. 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 Free Soil Party.
(c) The Copperheads.
(d) The Liberty Party.

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

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

8. 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.

9. Where was Frederick Douglass born?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Maryland.
(d) Texas.

10. Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation stated that the South had until what date to return to Union or face the freeing of their slaves immediately?
(a) September 14, 1862.
(b) January 1, 1862.
(c) January 1, 1863.
(d) October 1, 1864.

11. 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 British Affair.
(c) The Mason Affair.
(d) The Trent Affair.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, founded?

2. In January 1862, what Republican leader in the House called for total war against the rebellion to include emancipation of slaves, arguing that emancipation, by forcing the loss of enslaved labor, would ruin the rebel economy?

3. When did Lincoln issue a Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?

4. Where was Stephen A. Douglas from?

5. In what year did West Virginia abolish slavery?

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