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

2. In what year was John C. Breckinridge born?
(a) 1821.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1833.

3. Where was General Benjamin F. Butler assigned when he decided not to send a group of escape slaves back to their owners?
(a) Fort Wayne.
(b) Fort Amador.
(c) Fortress Jackson.
(d) Fortress Monroe.

4. The Emancipation Proclamation did not pertain to the slaves in the border states, leaving nearly how many people in bondage?
(a) 4 million.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 2 million.
(d) 1 million.

5. When did Lincoln issue a Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) September, 1861.
(b) July, 1862.
(c) September, 1862.
(d) October, 1863.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Frederick Douglass born?

2. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation under his authority as what under Article II, section 2 of the United States Constitution?

3. Who founded the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator?

4. What refers to goods that a neutral nation cannot supply to a belligerent nation except at the risk of seizure and confiscation?

5. When did Lincoln publish his Emancipation Proclamation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What bill was passed by Congress in July of 1861?

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

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

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

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

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