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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. 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) War Democrats.
(d) The Copperheads.

2. 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?
(a) July, 1861.
(b) October, 1862.
(c) September, 1862.
(d) June, 1860.

3. When was the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, founded?
(a) 1864.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1831.

4. What was the name of a major command of the United States Army during the 19th century which oversaw the military affairs in the country west of the Mississippi River to the borders of California and Oregon?
(a) Department of the Mississippi.
(b) Northwest Department.
(c) Department of the West.
(d) Northwest Organization.

5. What state had already mostly returned to Union control, so it was not named and was exempted from the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Texas.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Emancipation Proclamation did not pertain to the slaves in the border states, leaving nearly how many people in bondage?

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

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

4. Where was General Benjamin F. Butler assigned when he decided not to send a group of escape slaves back to their owners?

5. How many slave states in the South immediately declared their independence when Lincoln was elected?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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