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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. The Emancipation Proclamation proclaimed the immediate freedom of how many of the nation's slaves?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 15,000.

5. Who was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) Zachary Taylor.
(c) Clay Taylor.
(d) Stonewall Jackson.

6. 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?
(a) Border states.
(b) The Confederacy.
(c) Undecided states.
(d) Middle states.

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

8. 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) Kentucky.
(c) Virginia.
(d) North Carolina.

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) Martin Van Buren.
(c) David Ruggles.
(d) John P. Hale.

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

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

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

13. 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?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Popular sovereignty.
(d) Conservatism.

14. When did Lincoln publish his Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) January 1, 1863.
(b) July 12, 1863.
(c) January 1, 1862.
(d) June 14, 1864.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. William H. Seward was the 12th governor of what state?

2. Where was General Benjamin F. Butler assigned when he decided not to send a group of escape slaves back to their owners?

3. When was the American Colonization Society founded?

4. When did Abraham Lincoln first meet with Frederick Douglass?

5. 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?

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