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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What decision does General John C. Frymont make about Joseph Aubuchon?
(a) He arrests Aubuchon for interfering in military trials.
(b) He orders Aubuchon's execution.
(c) He overturns Aubuchon's conviction.
(d) He upholds Aubuchon's conviction.

2. Why is district attorney Ezra B. Chase arrested in Chapter 3?
(a) For breaking up a recruitment rally.
(b) For advising people to demand a peaceful settlement at the polls.
(c) For warning recruits they will go to hell.
(d) For selling alcohol to Union troops.

3. What orders does President Lincoln give General Benjamin F. Butler and General-in-Chief Winfield Scott in Chapter 1?
(a) Attack on sight.
(b) Arrest any who resist.
(c) Free those in chains, chain those who fight.
(d) Watch, wait and be ready to respond.

4. How many civilian arrests does William Seward preside over in Chapter 1?
(a) 12,206.
(b) 12.
(c) 1,864.
(d) 864.

5. To whom does President Lincoln have to explain his decision to suspend the writ of habeas corpus?
(a) His cabinet.
(b) The American public.
(c) Congress.
(d) Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What decision does Lincoln make on April 27, 1861?

2. Why is Dennis A. Mahony arrested in Chapter 3?

3. What is the Militia Act designed to prevent?

4. Why does Clement L. Vallandigham's arrest cause widespread Democratic protests?

5. Why is Edmund J. Ellis banished from Missouri?

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