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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. How many candidates did the Democratic Party present for the 1860 presidential election?
(a) 3.
(b) 0.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

2. 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 Lower Confederacy.
(b) The Confederate States of America.
(c) The Union of America.
(d) The Rebel Forces of America.

3. What is the political principle that the legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people, who are the source of all political power?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Popular sovereignty.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Conservatism.

4. Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation stated that the South had until what date to return to Union or face the freeing of their slaves immediately?
(a) October 1, 1864.
(b) September 14, 1862.
(c) January 1, 1862.
(d) January 1, 1863.

5. What was the name of a proposed Central American colony suggested by United States Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas in 1862?
(a) Lincoln Island.
(b) Pomeroy Island.
(c) Linconia.
(d) New America.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Emancipation Proclamation proclaimed the immediate freedom of how many of the nation's slaves?

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

3. Stephen A. Douglas was a candidate for what party in the 1860 presidential election?

4. 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?

5. The Battle of Antietam was fought on what date?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why did Lincoln initially refuse to allow blacks in the Union Army, as discussed in Chapter 7?

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

8. What candidates were elected from the various parties for the 1860 presidential election?

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

10. What did the Emancipation Proclamation allow for regarding the military, as discussed in Chapter 8?

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