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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. In 1820, the American Colonization Society began sending black volunteers where to establish a colony for freed American slaves?
(a) The Humboldt Coast.
(b) The Gulf Coast.
(c) The Pepper Coast.
(d) The Gold Coast.

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

3. When did Lincoln introduce legislation to Congress for gradual emancipation of the slaves in the border states, but the measure failed?
(a) October, 1863.
(b) July, 1862.
(c) July, 1861.
(d) September, 1863.

4. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation under his authority as what under Article II, section 2 of the United States Constitution?
(a) "Commander in Chief."
(b) "Vice-President."
(c) "President."
(d) "Sovereign Body."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term means to seize as forfeited to the public domain; appropriate, by way of penalty, for public use?

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

3. 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?

4. Who was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee?

5. On what historic date did General Benjamin F. Butler decide not to send a group of escape slaves back to their owners?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was permitted by ordinance of the Second Confiscation Act?

3. What led to John C. Fremont's removal from command in Chapter 6?

4. When did Maryland, West Virginia, Missouri and Tennessee abolish slavery?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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