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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) Conservative interventionalism.
(b) Conventionalism.
(c) Diplomaticism.
(d) Non-interventionism.

2. Who was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) Zachary Taylor.
(c) Clay Taylor.
(d) Stonewall Jackson.

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

4. What refers to the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or especially a political entity?
(a) Indiscretion.
(b) Secession.
(c) Embargo.
(d) Succession.

5. The Battle of Antietam was fought on what date?
(a) September 17, 1862.
(b) November 12, 1860.
(c) September 12, 1863.
(d) October 11, 1860.

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

7. During the 1860 presidential campaign, Lincoln promoted the Republican Party as what kind of party, despite their views on slavery?
(a) Liberal.
(b) Fiscal.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Conservative.

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

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

10. When did Lincoln introduce legislation to Congress for gradual emancipation of the slaves in the border states, but the measure failed?
(a) September, 1863.
(b) July, 1861.
(c) July, 1862.
(d) October, 1863.

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

12. Where was Frederick Douglass born?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Texas.

13. What is the political principle that the legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people, who are the source of all political power?
(a) Conservatism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Popular sovereignty.
(d) Democracy.

14. How many candidates did the Democratic Party present for the 1860 presidential election?
(a) 3.
(b) 0.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

15. What group in American politics of the 1860s were adherents of the Democratic Party who demanded a more aggressive policy toward the Confederacy and supported the policies of President Abraham Lincoln when the Civil War broke out?
(a) War Democrats.
(b) Forty-Eighters.
(c) The Copperheads.
(d) The Free Soilers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the context of the American Civil War, what refers to slave states that did not declare their secession from the United States before April 1861?

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

3. When was Stephen A. Douglas born?

4. What was the name of a proposed Central American colony suggested by United States Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas in 1862?

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?

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