US History Chapter 14 Practice Quiz

Battle of Shiloh

1862

General Sherman marches to the sea

1864

Thirteenth Amendment

1865

In what 1863 speech did Lincoln assert that the sacrifices of the Union soldiers would ensure that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth?"

Gettysburg Address

At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862:

Northern forces suffered one of their worst defeats of the war.

Rose Greenhow:

Was a Confederate spy in Washington, D.C.

Confederacy institutes the draft Homestead Act

1862

Battle at Gettysburg

1863

Which of the following was not a significant factor behind the Union's defeat of the Confederacy?

A growing conviction on the part of Confederate soldiers that slavery was wrong

A "Civil War" is:

A war between political factions or regions within the same country.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in December 1865:

Abolished slavery throughout the Union.

By 1862, how many states composed the Confederate States of America?

Eleven

George E. Pickett's crack division marched across an open field toward Union forces into withering gunfire in July 1863 at:

Gettysburg.

Which of the following groups was not a major target of the New York City draft riots?

Irish immigrants

Of the more than 180,000 black men who served in the Union army during the Civil War, how many died of disease, of wounds, or in battle?

One-third

Which of the following was not a major thrust of expanded federal activity during the war?

Protection of labor's right to organize

The Civil War is sometimes called "the first modern war?" because it used weapons and other technological advances of the industrial revolution. Which of the following was not one of these advances?

Radios

The commander of the Army of Northern Virginia was:

Robert E. Lee.

What military action started the American Civil War?

The Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter.

At Vicksburg in July 1863:

The Union, under U.S. Grant's leadership, was victorious.

Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation immediately following:

The battle of Antietam.

Which of the following was not a significant wartime development?

The harder things went for the Confederacy, the more unified its citizens became.

Which of the following was a Confederate advantage in fighting the Civil War?

The leading southern commander, General Robert E. Lee, was a brilliant battlefield tactician and served as head of the Confederate States army throughout the entire war.

Which of the following describes the Battle of Antietam?

This was the bloodiest battle of the war.

The Homestead Act:

Took effect on January 1, 1863, and offered 160 acres of free public land to settlers in the West.

Abraham Lincoln's January 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation:

freed some slaves, but exempted those in areas under Union control.

Which of the following best describes Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?

relatively lenient

Which of the following was the Gettysburg Address specifically designed to communicate?

the need for national reunion

Which of the following was not a source of growing disaffection among whites on the Confederate home front?

the recruitment of slaves to serve as Confederate army officers