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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) Middle states.
(b) The Confederacy.
(c) Undecided states.
(d) Border states.

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

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

7. What were Europeans who participated in or supported the revolutions of 1848 that swept Europe called?
(a) Forty-Niners.
(b) War Democrats.
(c) The Copperheads.
(d) Forty-Eighters.

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

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

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

11. Where was John C. Fremont commanding forces during the war and freeing the slaves of rebels whom he executed?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Missouri.

12. 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) Virginia.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) North Carolina.

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

14. 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) Martin Van Buren.
(b) David Ruggles.
(c) John P. Hale.
(d) William Lloyd Garrison.

15. What state had already mostly returned to Union control, so it was not named and was exempted from the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) Texas.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Tennessee.

Short Answer Questions

1. To Lincoln,abolishing slavery in what state was the most important step because it was the only state in the South in which he attempted to apply his plan for Reconstruction as he had in Missouri and Tennessee?

2. What candidate was presented by the Constitutional Union Party in the 1860 presidential election?

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

4. 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?

5. What refers to goods that a neutral nation cannot supply to a belligerent nation except at the risk of seizure and confiscation?

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