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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 William H. Seward study law?
(a) Union College.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) New York University.
(d) Penn State.

2. What group in American politics of the 1860s were adherents of the Democratic Party who demanded a more aggressive policy toward the Confederacy and supported the policies of President Abraham Lincoln when the Civil War broke out?
(a) The Free Soilers.
(b) Forty-Eighters.
(c) War Democrats.
(d) The Copperheads.

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

4. What candidate was presented by the Constitutional Union Party in the 1860 presidential election?
(a) John P. Hale.
(b) James Anderson.
(c) John C. Bell.
(d) Zachary Taylor.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did Maryland abolish slavery?

3. What refers to a trend of thought that favors equality of some sort among moral agents, whether persons or animals?

4. What nickname did Stephen A. Douglas have in politics?

5. The Constitutional Union Party was made up primarily of former members of what political party?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What political strategies did Lincoln assert in Chapter 5? What issues were avoided and why?

3. What military decision did General Benjamin F. Butler make in 1861 regarding escaped slaves?

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

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

6. What actions and events led to the beginning of the Civil War, as discussed in Chapter 5?

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

8. What did Lincoln say in his inaugural address regarding the South? How was his speech received?

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

10. When was the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation issued and what did it proclaim?

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