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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Diplomaticism.
(b) Conservative interventionalism.
(c) Non-interventionism.
(d) Conventionalism.

2. The Battle of Antietam was fought on what date?
(a) November 12, 1860.
(b) September 17, 1862.
(c) September 12, 1863.
(d) October 11, 1860.

3. The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and in what year?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1848.

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

5. 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) John P. Hale.
(c) William Lloyd Garrison.
(d) David Ruggles.

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

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

8. When did Abraham Lincoln first meet with Frederick Douglass?
(a) September, 1862.
(b) September, 1864.
(c) August, 1863.
(d) June, 1865.

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

10. 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) September, 1863.
(d) July, 1861.

11. 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?
(a) July, 1861.
(b) September, 1862.
(c) October, 1862.
(d) June, 1860.

12. In order to get around the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln allowed states in the South to hold what in which he required a majority of citizens to vote?
(a) An all-black election.
(b) A nationwide caucus.
(c) A congressional election.
(d) An open election.

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

14. 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) Freedom.
(c) Compensation.
(d) Consequences.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When did Lincoln issue a Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?

3. In what year did Maryland abolish slavery?

4. In what year did West Virginia abolish slavery?

5. In 1820, the American Colonization Society began sending black volunteers where to establish a colony for freed American slaves?

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