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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 made up primarily of former members of what political party?
2. Who was the maternal grandmother who raised Frederick Douglass until the age of 7?
3. When did Lincoln publicly relieve John C. Fremont of command?
4. What refers to the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or especially a political entity?
5. What was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the US?
Short Essay Questions
1. When did Maryland, West Virginia, Missouri and Tennessee abolish slavery?
2. What did Lincoln allow Southern states to do in order to get around the Emancipation Proclamation in Chapter 7?
3. What political strategies did Lincoln assert in Chapter 5? What issues were avoided and why?
4. What did Lincoln write of his impressions of New Orleans as a young man?
5. What state's slavery abolition was of greatest importance to Lincoln? Why?
6. What candidates were elected from the various parties for the 1860 presidential election?
7. What did Lincoln say in his inaugural address regarding the South? How was his speech received?
8. What military decision did General Benjamin F. Butler make in 1861 regarding escaped slaves?
9. What did President Buchanan do in response to the secession of the Southern states in Chapter 5?
10. What did the Emancipation Proclamation allow for regarding the military, as discussed in Chapter 8?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the slavery laws of Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois during Lincoln's childhood. How did the laws differ from the South to the North?
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
Discuss Lincoln's tenure with the Illinois legislature. When and why did Lincoln enter politics?
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