1. What was the name of a major command of the United States Army during the 19th century which oversaw the military affairs in the country west of the Mississippi River to the borders of California and Oregon?
(a) Northwest Organization.
(b) Northwest Department.
(c) Department of the Mississippi.
(d) Department of the West.

2. When did the Civil War in America end?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1861.

3. What is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives?
(a) The Presidential Cabinet.
(b) Parliament.
(c) Congress.
(d) Judiciary Committee.

4. Slavery had been prohibited in Indiana and Illinois since what year?
(a) 1787.
(b) 1700.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1812.

5. What was the name of a proposed Central American colony suggested by United States Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas in 1862?
(a) New America.
(b) Lincoln Island.
(c) Pomeroy Island.
(d) Linconia.

Short Answer Questions

1. To Lincoln,abolishing slavery in what state was the most important step because it was the only state in the South in which he attempted to apply his plan for Reconstruction as he had in Missouri and Tennessee?

2. Eric Foner won the Bancroft Prize in 1989 for what book?

3. Who was the 13th President of the United States?

4. How many slave states in the South immediately declared their independence when Lincoln was elected?

5. What refers to goods that a neutral nation cannot supply to a belligerent nation except at the risk of seizure and confiscation?

(see the answer key)

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