AP book 14

During the Civil War, Northern women

entered nursing, a field previously dominated by men

The Union Army

had a higher mortality rate for black soldiers than white soldiers

Which of the following was NOT enacted by the Republican Party during the Civil War

hard money policies requiring all payments in gold or silver

The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves

in areas of the Confederacy except those already under Union control

The New York City draft riots

included lynchings of a number of African Americans

The Confederacy ultimately financed its war effort through

paper money

In which of the following acts did Lincoln NOT "ignore" the Constitution

putting diplomatic pressure on England not to recognize the Confederacy

In England, which of the following supported the South

ruling classes

The first battle of the Civil War was

First Bull Run

Which of the following was an advantage enjoyed by the South at the outset of the war

It would be fighting, for the most part, a defensive war

Which of the following was true when the Civil War began

All the important material advantages lay with the North

The last major battle of George McClellan's tenure as commanding general of the Army of the Potomac was

Antietam

Which of the following stands did President Buchanan take after the first state seceded

No state has the right to secede from the Union

Which of the following battles was fought in the western theatre

Shiloh

The most concrete legacy of the Civil War for Southern white women was the

decimation of the male population and the creation of a major sexual imbalance in the region

The first seven Southern states that seceded were

southern states, not possessed of the military strength to fight a war, the states where the largest concentration of slaves were located

At Fort Sumter

the Confederates fired the first shot of the Civil War

The greatest source of division in the South was

the doctrine of states' rights

Historians have debated all of the following about the Civil War EXCEPT

whether the slaves contributed to the Northern victory