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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) Penn State.
(b) Union College.
(c) New York University.
(d) Rutgers University.

2. In what year did West Virginia abolish slavery?
(a) 1864.
(b) 1831.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1865.

3. When was Frederick Douglass born?
(a) 1821.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1882.

4. 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) Forty-Eighters.
(b) The Free Soilers.
(c) The Copperheads.
(d) War Democrats.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Stephen A. Douglas born?

3. What state asked to be entered into the Union as a separate state, agreeing that all black children born after July 1863 would be free?

4. The Constitutional Union Party was established in what year?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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