The Civil War 1861-65 Quiz

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

During the Civil War,

African-American troops were enlisted by the Union army only after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.

The Confederacy's most effective commerce-raider was the

Alabama

The South believed that the British would come to its aid because

Britain was dependent on Southern "King Cotton".

When it was issued in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation declared free only those slaves in

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 group known as...

Copperheads

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

Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter when it was learned that

Lincoln had ordered supplies sent to the fort.

As a result of the Union fighting to a draw militarily at Antietam Creek (1862) 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

Union General Ulysses S. Grant's basic strategy in the Civil War involved

assailing the enemy's armies simultaneously, massively, and directly.

General Robert E. Lee decided to invade the North through Pennsylvania in the summer of 1863 in order to

deliver a decisive blow that would strengthen the Northern peace movement and encourage foreign intervention on behalf of the South.

Of all the hardships faced by the soldiers during the Civil War, the greatest was

disease.

The North's greatest strength in the Civil War was its

economy, particularly its greater manufacturing capacity and more efficient and extensive railroad network.

The greatest weakness of the South during the Civil War was its

economy, particularly its limited manufacturing capacity and inferior railroad network.

Lincoln declared from the outset of the Civil War that

he was not fighting to free black slaves.

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.

The Union victory at Vicksburg on July 4, 1863 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) in 1861 would

lead to the capture of the Confederate capital at Richmond.

As the Civil War began, the South seemed to have the advantage of

more talented military leaders.

A supposed asset for the South at the beginning of the Civil War that never materialized to its real advantage was

naval/military intervention from Britain and France.

The Confederacy enlisted slaves into their army as fighting soldiers

only a month before the war ended.

General George B. McClellan, commander of the Union's Army of the Potomac, is best described as

overly cautious.

All Slavery was legally abolished in the United States by the

ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

In Lincoln's attempts to preserve the Union, he did all of the following questionable actions as president except

refused to implement a draft, or conscription law, during the war.

Lincoln's declaration that the North sought to preserve the Union with or without slavery

revealed the influence of the Border States on his policies.

Napoleon III's attempt to install Maximilian on the Mexican throne was a clear violation of

the Monroe Doctrine.

In 1861, many Northerners were willing to allow Southern states to leave the Union until

the South attacked Fort Sumter.

During the Civil War, Britain and the United States were nearly provoked into war by

the Trent affair, involving the removal of Southern diplomats from a British ship by a Union warship in 1861.

The Southern cause was weakened by

the concept of states' rights that the Confederacy professed ran contrary to the vision of a tight, well-knit central government held by its president, Jefferson Davis.This answer is correct.

Most working people in Britain sided with the North because

they had developed a class consciousness and moral revulsion about the evils of slavery and hoped that the Civil War would eventually extinguish slavery in the South and the western territories.

In order to persuade the Border States to remain in the Union, President Lincoln

used legally dubious methods including the declaration of martial law in Maryland and the deployment of Union soldiers in a local civil war in Missouri.

The Civil War was a "women's war" in all of the following ways except

women were encouraged to run for office to fill political posts abandoned by men.