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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Lincoln issue a Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) July, 1862.
(b) September, 1862.
(c) September, 1861.
(d) October, 1863.

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

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

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

6. Who did Lincoln suggest was tearing apart the country instead of the Republicans during a speech in the 1860 presidential campaign?
(a) The Democratic Party.
(b) The North.
(c) The South.
(d) The Liberty Party.

7. How many slave states in the South immediately declared their independence when Lincoln was elected?
(a) 11.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 8.

8. When did the Civil War in America end?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1865.

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

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

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

12. Where was John C. Breckinridge born?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Kentucky.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The Constitutional Union Party was also known as what in the state of California?

3. When did Lincoln introduce legislation to Congress for gradual emancipation of the slaves in the border states, but the measure failed?

4. The Emancipation Proclamation proclaimed the freedom of how many of the nation's slaves?

5. 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?

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