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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 was Stephen A. Douglas from?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Nebraska.
2. During the 1860 presidential campaign, Lincoln promoted the Republican Party as what kind of party, despite their views on slavery?
(a) Fiscal.
(b) Liberal.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Industrial.
3. To Lincoln,abolishing slavery in what state was the most important step because it was the only state in the South in which he attempted to apply his plan for Reconstruction as he had in Missouri and Tennessee?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Virginia.
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. When did Lincoln publish his Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) June 14, 1864.
(b) January 1, 1862.
(c) January 1, 1863.
(d) July 12, 1863.
Short Answer Questions
1. What, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War?
2. What was an act of Congress during the early months of the American Civil War permitting the confiscation of any of property, including slaves, being used to support the Confederate insurrection?
3. In what year did West Virginia abolish slavery?
4. What term means to seize as forfeited to the public domain; appropriate, by way of penalty, for public use?
5. What was the name of a proposed Central American colony suggested by United States Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas in 1862?
Short Essay Questions
1. What legislation did Abraham Lincoln introduce to Congress in July of 1862? What became of the legislation?
2. What political strategies did Lincoln assert in Chapter 5? What issues were avoided and why?
3. What state's slavery abolition was of greatest importance to Lincoln? Why?
4. What was permitted by ordinance of the Second Confiscation Act?
5. What did Lincoln say in his inaugural address regarding the South? How was his speech received?
6. What actions and events led to the beginning of the Civil War, as discussed in Chapter 5?
7. What treatment did blacks receive in the Union Army, as described in Chapter 8?
8. What military decision did General Benjamin F. Butler make in 1861 regarding escaped slaves?
9. What did Lincoln assert of the Republican Party at his speech at the Cooper Institute in 1860?
10. Why did Lincoln initially refuse to allow blacks in the Union Army, as discussed in Chapter 7?
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