APUSH 21
During the Civil War, Grant lost one man for every ____, and Lee lost one man for every ____.
10, 5
Arrange the following in chronological order: (A) the Battle of Bull Run, (B) the Battle of Gettysburg, (C) Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and (D) the Battle of Antietam.
A, D, B, C
Slaves hindered the Confederacy's war efforts by
All of these choices are correct.
In the 1864 election, Abraham Lincoln's running mate was
Andrew Johnson.
The Union army's success in the capture of ____ was probably critical to Lincoln's reelection in 1864.
Atlanta and Mobile
Britain did not protest too loudly against the Union naval blockade of the Confederacy because
Britain might want to use a similar blockade in a future war.
When it was issued in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation
Confederate states still in rebellion against the United States.
Clement L. Vallandigham, a Southern sympathizer and a tempestuous opponent of the draft and of the war, was derisively labeled by supporters of President Lincoln as a
Copperhead.
The political group in the North most dangerous to the Union cause was the
Copperheads.
A Confederate victory at Antietam in September 1862 probably would have won the Confederacy independence because
France and Britain were on the verge of recognizing the Confederate government and providing it with critically needed military assistance.
In the l864 election, the Democratic party nominated ____ to oppose Lincoln's reelection.
George McClellan
The two major battles of the Civil War fought on Union soil were
Gettysburg and Antietam.
As a result of the Union fighting to a draw militarily at Antietam Creek with Robert E. Lee's Confederate army
Lincoln was now prepared to issue his Emancipation Proclamation.
In the election of 1864, the Republicans joined with the prowar Democrats and founded the ____ party.
Union
The Battle of Gettysburg was significant because
Union victory meant that the Southern cause was doomed.
All of the following occurred as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation except
a deterioration of the diplomatic position of the Union concerning its relations with European nations.
As a theorist of warfare, General William T. Sherman was
a pioneer of the strategy of total warfare aimed at destroying civilian morale.
One consequence of General William T. Sherman's style of warfare was
a shorter war that saved lives
Union General Ulysses S. Grant's basic strategy in the Civil War involved
assailing the enemy's armies simultaneously, massively, and directly.
During the Civil War,
blacks were enlisted by the Union army only after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.
After assuming command of the Army of the Potomac, General George McClellan made the mistake of
consistently believing that the enemy outnumbered him.
General Robert E. Lee decided to invade the North through Pennsylvania in order to
deliver a decisive blow that would strengthen the Northern peace movement and encourage foreign intervention on behalf of the South.
Following a historic battle in March 1862 with a tiny Union ironclad warship, the Monitor , the Confederate blockade runner, the Merrimack, was
destroyed by Confederate soldiers to keep it out of the hands of Union troops.
African Americans who fought for the Union Army in the Civil War
included the brave and accomplished 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, which suffered heavy casualties during the Union siege of Fort Wagner, South Carolina in 1863.
In invading Maryland, one of General Lee's key objectives was to
inspire the Border States, particularly the wavering Maryland, to join the Confederacy and its secessionist cause.
After defeating McClellan at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Robert E. Lee decided to
invade the Union via Maryland.
The North's victory at Antietam allowed President Lincoln to
issue the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, making the Civil War more of a moral crusade against slavery.
The Union victory at Vicksburg was of major importance for all of the following reasons except
it was the last major battle of the Civil War.
President Lincoln hoped that a Union victory at Bull Run (Manassas Junction) would
lead to the capture of the Confederate capital at Richmond.
Southern slaves ran away to Union camps at the rate of
one in seven.
The Confederacy enlisted slaves into their army as fighting soldiers
only a month before the war ended.
George B. McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac, is best described as
overly cautious.
The Battle of Antietam was particularly critical because it
probably prevented intervention by Britain and France on behalf of the Confederacy.
At the beginning of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln favored
quick military action to show the folly of secession.
Slavery was legally abolished in the United States by the
ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
The South's victory at Bull Run (Manassas Junction) in 1861
reduced enlistments in the South's army.
Northern soldiers became increasingly convinced of slavery's evils when
slaves ran away to Union camps and persevered against all odds.
The Emancipation Proclamation had the effect of
strengthening the moral cause and diplomatic position of the Union.
After the Peninsula Campaign, Union strategy included all of the following except
striking deep into the Confederacy via the Appalachian Mountain chain.
As a result of the Confederate victory in the Peninsula Campaign
the Union turned to a strategy of total war.
Scholars dispute whether the Civil War marked a watershed in American history for all of the following reasons except
the Union victory did not have a significant effect on the constitutional expansion of federal government power.
One of the key developments enabling the Union to stop the Confederate thrust into the North at Antietam was
the Union's discovery of General Robert E. Lee's battle plans.
The Union's defeat in battle at Bull Run in 1861 was better than a victory because
the defeat caused Northerners to face up to the reality of a long, difficult war.
The Civil War resulted in all of the following except
the end of protective tariffs and isolationism.
The most serious Confederate threat to the Union blockade came from
the ironclad Merrimack (renamed the Virginia) warship, which destroyed two wooden ships of the Union navy off the Chesapeake Bay and threatened to destroy many more wooden Union warships.
Aside from ending slavery, blacks enlisted into the Union Army because they
wanted to prove their manhood and strengthen their postwar claim to full American citizenship.
After halting Lee's troops at Antietam, General George McClellan
was removed from his field command.