Week 14 Quiz

The fragment "are, and henceforward shall be free" comes from which document?

Select one.

• The Gettysburg Address
• Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• The 13th Amendment

The fragment "thenceforward, and forever free" sits inside the Emancipation Proclamation's text. Which proclamation do those words belong to?

Select one.

• The order itself, on its own date
• The preliminary proclamation of 1862, recited near the opening of the text
• The 13th Amendment, quoted in the proclamation's text
• Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, quoted in the proclamation's text

The fragment "government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth" comes from which document?

Select one.

• The Declaration of Independence
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
• The Gettysburg Address

The Emancipation Proclamation freed every enslaved person in the United States.

True or false.

• True
• False

Which measure abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, throughout the United States?

Select one.

• The Emancipation Proclamation
• The 13th Amendment
• The preliminary proclamation
• The Gettysburg Address

Which list puts these three in order, earliest to latest: the 13th Amendment ratified, Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, and the Emancipation Proclamation?

Select one.

• Emancipation Proclamation, First Inaugural Address, 13th Amendment ratified
• First Inaugural Address, 13th Amendment ratified, Emancipation Proclamation
• First Inaugural Address, Emancipation Proclamation, 13th Amendment ratified
• 13th Amendment ratified, Emancipation Proclamation, First Inaugural Address

How many years passed from the Emancipation Proclamation to the ratification of the 13th Amendment?

Select one.

• 1 year
• 2 years
• 3 years
• 4 years

How many known manuscript copies of the Gettysburg Address are there?

Select one.

• 1
• 2
• 5
• 3

For a question about life in a Union army camp in Virginia during the war, which of these sources are primary? Select every one that applies.

Select every option that applies.

• A soldier's 1862 letter home from a camp in Virginia
• A 1903 memoir by a veteran recalling that camp forty years later
• A documentary film made in 2015 about the war
• A modern map drawn to show the 1803 purchase

As the course reads it, what type of document is the Emancipation Proclamation, and which archive keeps it?

Select one.

• A constitutional amendment, kept by the National Archives
• A presidential proclamation, kept by the National Archives
• A speech, kept by the Library of Congress
• A federal statute, kept by the Avalon Project