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Which of the following was NOT among the states that seceded between Lincoln's election and his inauguration? |
| | A) | South Carolina |
| | B) | North Carolina |
| | C) | Georgia |
| | D) | Louisiana |
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What was Lincoln's overarching goal as he took office? |
| | A) | to preserve the Union |
| | B) | to take a forceful stand against slavery |
| | C) | to gain powerful allies in Congress, in both houses |
| | D) | to convince Congress to allow blacks, in the states that were still part of the Union, to join the military |
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Which term best describes Lincoln's initial policy regarding African Americans? |
| | A) | determined |
| | B) | militant |
| | C) | vacillating |
| | D) | abolitionist |
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Where, in August 1862, did white rioters set fire to a tobacco factory from which black women and children workers barely escaped with their lives? |
| | A) | Atlanta |
| | B) | Richmond |
| | C) | Brooklyn |
| | D) | Boston |
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When did the Union implement a national military draft? |
| | A) | 1861 |
| | B) | 1862 |
| | C) | 1863 |
| | D) | 1864 |
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Why did militant abolitionists opposed Lincoln's early policies? |
| | A) | They feared his approach would alienate the Border States. |
| | B) | They resented the fact that he did not consult them more publicly about issues concerning slavery and abolition. |
| | C) | They feared that the violence against blacks happening throughout the North would worsen because of his policies. |
| | D) | They felt he and the Republican Party had failed to take a strong enough stance against slavery. |
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What was the legal status of slaves, according to the Confiscation Acts of 1861 and 1862? |
| | A) | They were property, like any other rebel property, and were referred to as "contrabands." |
| | B) | They were in a sort of legal limbo, remaining slaves without masters, and Union generals were to deal with any captured slave as they saw fit. |
| | C) | As has happened so many times before the Confiscation Acts, the slave issue was not addressed in any way, legal or otherwise. |
| | D) | They were initially given the right to "forty acres and a mule." |
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How did Lincoln respond to Union General David Hunter's 1862 proclamation that slaves in Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina were "forever free"? |
| | A) | He began laying the groundwork for the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau. |
| | B) | He, as commander in chief, had Hunter reprimanded. |
| | C) | He ordered Hunter to work with the Treasury Department to reimburse the slaves' owners. |
| | D) | He nullified Hunter's order. |
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What were Lincoln's views on colonization, the voluntary emigration of freedpeople to places such as Haiti and Liberia? |
| | A) | He always dismissed it as too expensive and complex. |
| | B) | Until the end of the war, he supported the idea. |
| | C) | He saw it as decidedly secondary to emancipation. |
| | D) | He supported it very early in the war, but quickly saw that removing freedpeople would not make the racial situation any better. |
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Lincoln issued his preliminary emancipation proclamation following a Union victory in what battle? |
| | A) | Gettysburg |
| | B) | Antietam |
| | C) | Chickamauga |
| | D) | Atlanta |
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Which slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation? |
| | A) | those in the Border States |
| | B) | those in loyal areas of the rebel states |
| | C) | those in the rebel states |
| | D) | every slave in the Union and the Confederacy |
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What eventually happened to the land that was distributed to slave families under Sherman's Special Order No. 15? |
| | A) | The federal government reclaimed it and either returned it to the former owners or sold it to private investors. |
| | B) | It was used as a "shining example" of one of the successes of the Freedmen's Bureau. |
| | C) | It was sold to the families who occupied it during the war, and the purchase was financed through the Freedmen's Bank. |
| | D) | It remains in the hands of the families who were first settled on it during the war. |
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Where was the site of what the text describes as "a historic social experiment to educate freedpeople," which began in early 1862? |
| | A) | Natchez, Mississippi |
| | B) | Washington, D.C. |
| | C) | Port Royal, South Carolina |
| | D) | Petersburg, Virginia |
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What finally forced Lincoln to authorize the War Department to use black soldiers? |
| | A) | the military need for them |
| | B) | the finally successful arguments of militant abolitionists |
| | C) | William Lloyd Garrison's agreement to finally publicly support the war |
| | D) | the Border States' governors' reluctant agreement to support the plan |
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By the end of the war, how many blacks had enrolled in the Union army? |
| | A) | 134,000 |
| | B) | 186,000 |
| | C) | 90,000 |
| | D) | 54,000 |
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Which of the following statements best describes black soldiers' participation in the Civil War? |
| | A) | Because their roles were so limited, they saw action in only a few battles in the last year of the war. |
| | B) | From late 1862, there was hardly a battle fought in which some black troops did not participate. |
| | C) | Despite being allowed to enroll in the Union army, they were exclusively used for menial labor, building fortifications, serving as cooks, etc. |
| | D) | They participated only in battles outside the South, since the War Department feared the violence that would ensue if they were used in the Southern theaters. |
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Which of the following statements best describes black women's roles in the Union prosecution of the Civil War? |
| | A) | They served in a wide variety of capacities, including as spies, nurses, and laundresses. |
| | B) | They were barred from any kind of service other than assisting in contraband camps. |
| | C) | They served limited roles to assist the army, but were barred from the navy. |
| | D) | Their service was limited to nursing, since that was considered appropriate "women's work." |
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When did the Confederacy finally begin to treat captured blacks as prisoners of war rather than as rebellious slaves? |
| | A) | 1862 |
| | B) | 1863 |
| | C) | 1864 |
| | D) | 1865 |
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Where did the worst case of mistreatment of black soldiers by Confederate forces take place? |
| | A) | Fort Sumter |
| | B) | Fort Pillow |
| | C) | Milliken's Bend |
| | D) | Port Hudson |
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Approximately how many black soldiers lost their lives in the Civil War? |
| | A) | 20,000 |
| | B) | 27,000 |
| | C) | 38,000 |
| | D) | 41,000 |
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What was the Confederacy's "no quarter" policy regarding black soldiers? |
| | A) | The Confederacy refused to recognize black soldiers as combatants under the accepted rule of war and instead killed them. |
| | B) | The Confederacy sold all captured black soldiers back into slavery in special auctions. |
| | C) | The Confederacy refused to allow black soldiers who surrendered to be housed with white prisoners of war. |
| | D) | The Confederacy considered black soldiers who had more than "one quarter black blood" to be black and therefore to be used for menial labor in the prison camps for white prisoners. |
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The Enlistment Act of July 17, 1862 provided that whites with the rank of private should be paid $13 a month, and $3.50 for clothing. What were black privates to be paid? |
| | A) | the same amount, but without the pay for clothing |
| | B) | $7 and $3 |
| | C) | $11 and $3 |
| | D) | $12 and $3 |
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How did the famous Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment protest pay inequities between black and white soldiers? |
| | A) | They rioted, holding their regimental leadership responsible for not being more demanding. |
| | B) | They served for a year without pay. |
| | C) | They refused to go into battle. |
| | D) | They deserted. |
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What was one way in which the Emancipation Proclamation changed the behavior of slaves on southern plantations? |
| | A) | Entire families, rather than single men as had been the trend before the Proclamation, began to run away. |
| | B) | Single men began to flee the plantations, paving the way and establishing new living quarters for their families who followed. |
| | C) | More slaves stayed on the plantations and resisted the urge to leave because they believed their "northern liberators" would arrive any day. |
| | D) | Aged and infirm slaves began to organize their own little communities, off the plantations, where they could look after each other. |
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What was the southern practice of "running the negroes"? |
| | A) | working slaves in the fields until they were too tired to run away |
| | B) | moving slaves away from areas threatened with invasion from federal troops |
| | C) | making slaves' punishments for misbehavior more public, which usually included "running" them into the nearest town or settlement square |
| | D) | segregating male and female slaves in order to keep a closer eye on them or, in the language of the day, "run" them better |
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When did the Confederate draft begin? |
| | A) | 1861 |
| | B) | 1862 |
| | C) | late 1864 |
| | D) | The Confederacy, unlike the Union, never had a draft. |
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Which of the following statements best describes slaves' role in the Confederate war effort? |
| | A) | They both assisted it and subverted it. |
| | B) | They resisted all forms of cooperation with white Confederates. |
| | C) | They had no role, as they were barred by Confederate law from any participation whatsoever. |
| | D) | Only male slaves participated, and then only rarely. |
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When did the Confederacy pass a general impressment law? |
| | A) | 1862 |
| | B) | 1863 |
| | C) | 1864 |
| | D) | 1865 |
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If Confederate plantation owners did not want to fight, what could they do to avoid conscription? |
| | A) | donate $20,000 to the Confederate treasury |
| | B) | send 20 slaves to serve in their place (as laborers) |
| | C) | provide various amounts of foodstuffs to the Confederacy (amounts depended upon the item) |
| | D) | give the Confederacy 10 slaves to be auctioned to raise money for the Confederate treasury |
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When did the Confederacy finally allow the enrollment of black soldiers? |
| | A) | never |
| | B) | in the last days of the war, in March 1865 |
| | C) | in late 1864, as another desperate winter was approaching |
| | D) | in 1862, the same time the conscription law was passed |
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