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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a trend of thought that favors equality of some sort among moral agents, whether persons or animals?
(a) Humanitarianism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Egalitarianism.
(d) Capitalism.

2. When was Frederick Douglass born?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1821.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1882.

3. When did Lincoln publicly relieve John C. Fremont of command?
(a) July, 12, 1862.
(b) November 2, 1861.
(c) October 15, 1862.
(d) September 14, 1875.

4. In January 1862, what Republican leader in the House called for total war against the rebellion to include emancipation of slaves, arguing that emancipation, by forcing the loss of enslaved labor, would ruin the rebel economy?
(a) Thaddeus Stevens.
(b) Henry Clay.
(c) John P. Hale.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

5. In 1820, the American Colonization Society began sending black volunteers where to establish a colony for freed American slaves?
(a) The Gold Coast.
(b) The Gulf Coast.
(c) The Pepper Coast.
(d) The Humboldt Coast.

6. When was William H. Seward born?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1801.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1759.

7. When did Lincoln publish his Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) January 1, 1863.
(b) January 1, 1862.
(c) June 14, 1864.
(d) July 12, 1863.

8. 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 Mason-Swift Treaty.
(c) The Lyons-Seward Treaty.
(d) The Lincoln Treaty.

9. What state had already mostly returned to Union control, so it was not named and was exempted from the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) Texas.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Arkansas.

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

11. The Emancipation Proclamation proclaimed the immediate freedom of how many of the nation's slaves?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 15,000.

12. Who did Lincoln suggest was tearing apart the country instead of the Republicans during a speech in the 1860 presidential campaign?
(a) The North.
(b) The Liberty Party.
(c) The South.
(d) The Democratic Party.

13. What Pennsylvania governor was a staunch defender of the war effort and Lincoln Administration policies during the Civil War?
(a) Zachary Taylor.
(b) Henry Clay.
(c) Andrew Gregg Curtin.
(d) George B. McClellan.

14. 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?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Virginia.

15. 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) Non-interventionism.
(c) Conventionalism.
(d) Conservative interventionalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the American Colonization Society founded?

2. Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation offered gradual emancipation and what to border states and any states that returned voluntarily to the Union?

3. The Constitutional Union Party was made up primarily of former members of what political party?

4. 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?

5. What refers to the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or especially a political entity?

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