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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. The Constitutional Union Party was established in what year?
2. What refers to a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates?
3. What refers to a trend of thought that favors equality of some sort among moral agents, whether persons or animals?
4. What state had already mostly returned to Union control, so it was not named and was exempted from the Emancipation Proclamation?
5. When was Frederick Douglass born?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Lincoln assert of the Republican Party at his speech at the Cooper Institute in 1860?
2. What state's slavery abolition was of greatest importance to Lincoln? Why?
3. When did Maryland, West Virginia, Missouri and Tennessee abolish slavery?
4. What was Abraham Lincoln's opinion of General Benjamin F. Butler's actions in Chapter 6?
5. What was permitted by ordinance of the Second Confiscation Act?
6. What did the Emancipation Proclamation allow for regarding the military, as discussed in Chapter 8?
7. What did President Buchanan do in response to the secession of the Southern states in Chapter 5?
8. What bill was passed by Congress in July of 1861?
9. Why did Lincoln initially refuse to allow blacks in the Union Army, as discussed in Chapter 7?
10. What legislation did Abraham Lincoln introduce to Congress in July of 1862? What became of the legislation?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Discuss the origins and history of the Liberty Party. What did the Liberty Party believe was the best way of dealing with the emancipated slaves from the South?
Essay Topic 3
Describe James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, and the presidential elections of 1848. How was Lincoln involved in campaigning?
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