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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Lincoln publicly relieve John C. Fremont of command?
(a) November 2, 1861.
(b) October 15, 1862.
(c) July, 12, 1862.
(d) September 14, 1875.

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

3. The Emancipation Proclamation did not pertain to the slaves in the border states, leaving nearly how many people in bondage?
(a) 4 million.
(b) 1 million.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 2 million.

4. 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) A nationwide caucus.
(b) An all-black election.
(c) A congressional election.
(d) An open election.

5. 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?
(a) The Free Soil Party.
(b) The Liberty Party.
(c) The Copperheads.
(d) War Democrats.

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. What refers to a trend of thought that favors equality of some sort among moral agents, whether persons or animals?
(a) Humanitarianism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Egalitarianism.

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

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

13. 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.

14. 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 Lyons-Seward Treaty.
(d) The Lincoln Treaty.

15. The Constitutional Union Party was made up primarily of former members of what political party?
(a) The Whig Party.
(b) The Democratic Party.
(c) The Republican Party.
(d) The Liberty Party.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was John C. Breckinridge born?

2. In what year was John C. Breckinridge born?

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

4. In what year did West Virginia abolish slavery?

5. The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and in what year?

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