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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, founded?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1831.
(c) 1864.
(d) 1795.

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

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

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

6. 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) October, 1863.
(c) July, 1861.
(d) September, 1863.

7. In what year did Maryland abolish slavery?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1831.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1864.

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

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

10. How many candidates did the Democratic Party present for the 1860 presidential election?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 0.
(d) 2.

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

12. 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) Capitalism.
(b) Popular sovereignty.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Conservatism.

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

14. 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.

15. 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) The Free Soilers.
(b) War Democrats.
(c) The Copperheads.
(d) Forty-Eighters.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. During the 1860 presidential campaign, Lincoln promoted the Republican Party as what kind of party, despite their views on slavery?

3. The Emancipation Proclamation did not pertain to the slaves in the border states, leaving nearly how many people in bondage?

4. Where was John C. Fremont commanding forces during the war and freeing the slaves of rebels whom he executed?

5. 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?

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