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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 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?
(a) An open election.
(b) A congressional election.
(c) A nationwide caucus.
(d) An all-black election.

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

3. How many slave states in the South immediately declared their independence when Lincoln was elected?
(a) 3.
(b) 11.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

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

5. What nickname did Stephen A. Douglas have in politics?
(a) "Little Giant."
(b) "Goliath."
(c) "The Great Bear."
(d) "Giant Tortoise."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a major general during the American Civil War and organized the famous Army of the Potomac?

2. In January 1862, what Republican leader in the House called for total war against the rebellion to include emancipation of slaves, arguing that emancipation, by forcing the loss of enslaved labor, would ruin the rebel economy?

3. William H. Seward was the 12th governor of what state?

4. What, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War?

5. When did Lincoln issue a Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did President Buchanan do in response to the secession of the Southern states in Chapter 5?

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