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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and in what year?

2. Who was an anti-slavery activist who was active in the New York Committee of Vigilance and the Underground Railroad and helped Frederick Douglass escape to freedom?

3. When was Frederick Douglass born?

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?

5. When was Stephen A. Douglas born?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What bill was passed by Congress in July of 1861?

3. Why did Lincoln initially refuse to allow blacks in the Union Army, as discussed in Chapter 7?

4. What actions did John C. Fremont take with escaped slaves in Chapter 6?

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

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

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

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

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

10. When was the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation issued and what did it proclaim?

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