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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a foreign policy which holds that political rulers should avoid alliances with other nations, but still retain diplomacy, and avoid all wars not related to direct self-defense?
(a) Diplomaticism.
(b) Conservative interventionalism.
(c) Conventionalism.
(d) Non-interventionism.

2. The Emancipation Proclamation did not pertain to the slaves in the border states, leaving nearly how many people in bondage?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 4 million.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 2 million.

3. When was the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, founded?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1831.
(c) 1864.
(d) 1795.

4. Where did William H. Seward study law?
(a) New York University.
(b) Union College.
(c) Penn State.
(d) Rutgers University.

5. Where did Lincoln give a speech during the 1860 presidential campaign in which he stated that the Republicans did not want to change slavery in states where it already existed, but only wanted to stop it from expanding?
(a) Penn State.
(b) The U.S. State House.
(c) New York University.
(d) The Cooper Institute.

6. 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?
(a) The Union of America.
(b) The Confederate States of America.
(c) The Rebel Forces of America.
(d) The Lower Confederacy.

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

8. Who was a major general during the American Civil War and organized the famous Army of the Potomac?
(a) Zachary Taylor.
(b) Henry Clay.
(c) Andrew Gregg Curtin.
(d) George B. McClellan.

9. When was the American Colonization Society founded?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1816.

10. When did Lincoln issue a Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) July, 1862.
(b) September, 1862.
(c) September, 1861.
(d) October, 1863.

11. When did the United States Civil War begin?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1862.

12. The Treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade was also known as what?
(a) The Trent Treaty.
(b) The Lyons-Seward Treaty.
(c) The Lincoln Treaty.
(d) The Mason-Swift Treaty.

13. William H. Seward was the 12th governor of what state?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Indiana.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) New York.

14. Where was John C. Breckinridge born?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Alabama.

15. Where was Stephen A. Douglas from?
(a) Indiana.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Nebraska.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was John C. Fremont commanding forces during the war and freeing the slaves of rebels whom he executed?

2. What state was named in the Emancipation Proclamation, but exemptions were specified for the 48 counties then in the process of forming a new state?

3. When did Lincoln publicly relieve John C. Fremont of command?

4. The Constitutional Union Party was established in what year?

5. What Pennsylvania governor was a staunch defender of the war effort and Lincoln Administration policies during the Civil War?

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