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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 fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and in what year?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1860.

2. When was the American Colonization Society founded?
(a) 1825.
(b) 1816.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1795.

3. Where did Lincoln give a speech during the 1860 presidential campaign in which he stated that the Republicans did not want to change slavery in states where it already existed, but only wanted to stop it from expanding?
(a) The U.S. State House.
(b) The Cooper Institute.
(c) Penn State.
(d) New York University.

4. When did Lincoln publicly relieve John C. Fremont of command?
(a) November 2, 1861.
(b) October 15, 1862.
(c) September 14, 1875.
(d) July, 12, 1862.

5. When was William H. Seward born?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1801.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Frederick Douglass born?

2. Where was Stephen A. Douglas from?

3. 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?

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?

5. When was Frederick Douglass born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What actions did Secretary of State Seward take to further the colonialist cause during the Civil War? What problems were encountered?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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