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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Lincoln give a speech during the 1860 presidential campaign in which he stated that the Republicans did not want to change slavery in states where it already existed, but only wanted to stop it from expanding?
(a) The U.S. State House.
(b) Penn State.
(c) New York University.
(d) The Cooper Institute.

2. Who founded the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator?
(a) Martin Van Buren.
(b) John P. Hale.
(c) David Ruggles.
(d) William Lloyd Garrison.

3. On what historic date did General Benjamin F. Butler decide not to send a group of escape slaves back to their owners?
(a) September 14, 1863.
(b) March 16, 1862.
(c) May 12, 1861.
(d) May 23, 1861.

4. What was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the US?
(a) The Union of America.
(b) The Confederate States of America.
(c) The Lower Confederacy.
(d) The Rebel Forces of America.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or especially a political entity?

2. 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?

3. Where was Stephen A. Douglas from?

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. When did Lincoln publish his Emancipation Proclamation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Frederick Douglass? When did he first meet with Lincoln?

2. What did Lincoln write of his impressions of New Orleans as a young man?

3. What bill was passed by Congress in July of 1861?

4. What treatment did blacks receive in the Union Army, as described in Chapter 8?

5. What happened to the slaves who escaped to the Union in the beginning of the war, as described in Chapter 6?

6. What legislation did Abraham Lincoln introduce to Congress in July of 1862? What became of the legislation?

7. What did Lincoln allow Southern states to do in order to get around the Emancipation Proclamation in Chapter 7?

8. What was Abraham Lincoln's opinion of General Benjamin F. Butler's actions in Chapter 6?

9. What did Lincoln assert of the Republican Party at his speech at the Cooper Institute in 1860?

10. What actions did John C. Fremont take with escaped slaves in Chapter 6?

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