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

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

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, 1861.
(c) July, 1862.
(d) September, 1863.

4. In the context of the American Civil War, what refers to slave states that did not declare their secession from the United States before April 1861?
(a) Border states.
(b) Undecided states.
(c) The Confederacy.
(d) Middle states.

5. Who was the maternal grandmother who raised Frederick Douglass until the age of 7?
(a) Sarah Hale.
(b) Marie Bailey.
(c) Betty Bailey.
(d) Josephine Hale.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Stephen A. Douglas from?

2. In 1820, the American Colonization Society began sending black volunteers where to establish a colony for freed American slaves?

3. What candidate was presented by the Constitutional Union Party in the 1860 presidential election?

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. The Constitutional Union Party was also known as what in the state of California?

Short Essay Questions

1. What state's slavery abolition was of greatest importance to Lincoln? Why?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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