View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who founded the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator?
(a) John P. Hale.
(b) David Ruggles.
(c) William Lloyd Garrison.
(d) Martin Van Buren.

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

3. What refers to goods that a neutral nation cannot supply to a belligerent nation except at the risk of seizure and confiscation?
(a) Contractual entity.
(b) Allimony.
(c) Contraband.
(d) Embargo.

4. What state asked to be entered into the Union as a separate state, agreeing that all black children born after July 1863 would be free?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Kentucky.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a trend of thought that favors equality of some sort among moral agents, whether persons or animals?

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

3. 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?

4. In 1820, the American Colonization Society began sending black volunteers where to establish a colony for freed American slaves?

5. Who was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lincoln write of his impressions of New Orleans as a young man?

2. What was permitted by ordinance of the Second Confiscation Act?

3. What did Lincoln say in his inaugural address regarding the South? How was his speech received?

4. What did Lincoln allow Southern states to do in order to get around the Emancipation Proclamation in Chapter 7?

5. What political strategies did Lincoln assert in Chapter 5? What issues were avoided and why?

6. Who was Frederick Douglass? When did he first meet with Lincoln?

7. What did Lincoln assert of the Republican Party at his speech at the Cooper Institute in 1860?

8. What did the Emancipation Proclamation allow for regarding the military, as discussed in Chapter 8?

9. What military decision did General Benjamin F. Butler make in 1861 regarding escaped slaves?

10. When did Maryland, West Virginia, Missouri and Tennessee abolish slavery?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 922 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample