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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Dennis A. Mahony arrested in Chapter 3?
(a) For discouraging enlistments.
(b) For breaking up a recruitment rally.
(c) For bringing illegal goods across picket lines.
(d) For selling alcohol to Union troops.

2. Who is Samuel E. Perkins?
(a) An Illinois journalist.
(b) A Illinois lawyer.
(c) A Democratic journalist and Indiana Justice.
(d) The district attorney of Indiana..

3. Which two bills does Congress pass on March 3, 1863?
(a) The Emancipation Proclamation and General Order 100.
(b) The Habeas Corpus Act and the Enrollment Act.
(c) The Enrollment Act and the Militia Act.
(d) The Writ Act and the Militia Act.

4. What does General Order No. 104 request that civilian and military authorities do?
(a) Report all strangers and suspected derelicts to the Union Army.
(b) Place all thieves and blockade runners under arrest.
(c) Turn in all information about spies and suspicious personnel.
(d) Interfere as little as possible with commerce while capturing draft dodgers.

5. According to William Seward, which law is higher than the Constitution?
(a) Mosaic law.
(b) International law.
(c) Federal law.
(d) Divine law.

6. Why do mobs burn railroad bridges in Chapter 1?
(a) To prevent goods from being sent South.
(b) To prevent troops from passing through to Washington, DC.
(c) To prevent goods from being sent North.
(d) To protest an increase on cotton tax.

7. Who produces a digest of opinions on martial law for President Lincoln in Chapter 1?
(a) Edwin M. Stanton.
(b) William H. Seward.
(c) Edward Bates.
(d) Titian J. Coffey.

8. What decision does Lincoln make on April 27, 1861?
(a) He decides to send troops into the South.
(b) He suspends writ of habeas corpus on rail routes from Philadelphia to Washington.
(c) He makes plans to reunite America.
(d) He announces the Emancipation Proclamation.

9. Which book of John A. Marshall's is well read among Lincoln's critics?
(a) The American Bastile.
(b) Low Tide for Liberty.
(c) The Merryman.
(d) The Prisoner of State.

10. After what battle do arrests of Southern citizens begin to decline?
(a) Gettysburg.
(b) Vicksburg.
(c) Chickamauga.
(d) Antietam.

11. What does Peter H. Watson oversee in Chapter 5?
(a) The transfer of Confederate prisioners.
(b) The investigation of John Eitel's illegal operations.
(c) The transfer of civilian prisoners.
(d) The movement of Union troops through St. Louis.

12. Whom does Lincoln turn to for advice when Baltimore mobs burn railroad bridges?
(a) Ulysses S. Grant.
(b) Edwin M. Stanton.
(c) Edward Bates.
(d) William H. Seward.

13. What does Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles confide in his diary?
(a) He never feared revolt from Northern citizens.
(b) He is concerned about the impact of paid servants on the economy.
(c) He fears the Confederacy might win.
(d) He is terrified of revolt from Northern facotry workers.

14. Which former President is nearly arrested in Chapter 1?
(a) Millard Fillmore.
(b) Zachary Taylor.
(c) Franklin Pierce.
(d) James Buchanan.

15. Which famous case will refer to Samuel Perkins' arguments in 1966?
(a) Milligan.
(b) Griffin.
(c) Perkins.
(d) Writ.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does President Lincoln have to explain his decision to suspend the writ of habeas corpus?

2. What precedent is set in Joseph Griffin's case?

3. According to Lincoln, why are multiple arrests made in Maryland in Chapter 1?

4. In Chapter 5, what does Pardon Worsley convince clerks from several prominent businesses that he has the permits and power to do?

5. Who is Henry W. Halleck?

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