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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are modern historians unable to replicate or confirm Colonel F. C. Ainsworth's study?
(a) His notes and journals have been lost.
(b) The National Archives will not release the records.
(c) The great fire of 1906 destroyed most of the records.
(d) His bureau has been abolished and surviving records are incomplete.

2. Which Union general has President Lincoln's blessing to arrest all the men he wishes and freeing those who are willing to take an oath of allegiance?
(a) John A. Pope.
(b) John A. Dix.
(c) William T. Sherman.
(d) Ulysses S. Grant.

3. In Chapter 8, why is an elderly man charged with violating his oath of allegiance to the Union?
(a) For writing to his son in the Confederate Army.
(b) For attending his daughter's wedding in Missouri.
(c) For traveling to his son's funeral in Kentucky.
(d) For whistling "Dixie" in public.

4. Which legitimate sailors are sometimes mistaken for blockade-runners?
(a) Canadian sailors.
(b) Licensed oystermen.
(c) Union naval sailors.
(d) Crab fishers.

5. How does Maryland protest the military arrest of citizens?
(a) By burning bridges.
(b) By destroying railroads.
(c) By marching a group of women and children to the White House.
(d) With satirical songs and pamphlets.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Lincoln, what act did President Jefferson commit without having the constitutional power to do so?

2. Who is the presidential nominee for the Democratic party in 1864?

3. How does the Confederate Captain John Wilkinson slip through the blockade in 1864?

4. What does the War Department do when James Hamilton reveals the horrors he suffered as a hostage?

5. In Chapter 6, what are the primary reasons for most arrests of Northern citizens?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Joseph G. Knapp complain to Edward Bates?

2. Describe President Lincoln's letter to Erastus Corning.

3. Why does James Bryce liken President Lincoln to Oliver Cromwell?

4. How does the Confederate Captain John Wilkinson slip through the blockades multiple times during the Civil War?

5. Why does Horatio Seymour quote Lord Coke, by saying, "Where courts of law are open, martial law cannot be executed?"

6. Why is the Union careful to not offend Great Britain?

7. Why is the Banshee declared an agent of the Confederacy?

8. According to Lincoln, what differentiates his actions from that of a dictator?

9. Who is Wes Bogan?

10. Describe Ex parte Milligan.

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