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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What refers to goods that a neutral nation cannot supply to a belligerent nation except at the risk of seizure and confiscation?
2. 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?
3. When did Abraham Lincoln first meet with Frederick Douglass?
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?
5. When was the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, founded?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was permitted by ordinance of the Second Confiscation Act?
2. What did the Emancipation Proclamation allow for regarding the military, as discussed in Chapter 8?
3. When was the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation issued and what did it proclaim?
4. What legislation did Abraham Lincoln introduce to Congress in July of 1862? What became of the legislation?
5. What did Lincoln say in his inaugural address regarding the South? How was his speech received?
6. What happened to the slaves who escaped to the Union in the beginning of the war, as described in Chapter 6?
7. What actions did John C. Fremont take with escaped slaves in Chapter 6?
8. When did Maryland, West Virginia, Missouri and Tennessee abolish slavery?
9. What did Lincoln allow Southern states to do in order to get around the Emancipation Proclamation in Chapter 7?
10. What political strategies did Lincoln assert in Chapter 5? What issues were avoided and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the First and Second Confiscation Acts. How did each of these acts further the Union's cause?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution. When was the amendment first introduced to the House? How was it received by the citizens of the nation?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Lincoln's tenure with the Illinois legislature. When and why did Lincoln enter politics?
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