Hist 1301 - chapter 15

Who had the strongest political reservations against announcing the liberation of all enslaved people held by rebellious slaveholders, out of fear that it would destroy sympathy for the Union in the South?

Abraham Lincoln

Statistically speaking, which place was the most dangerous for a Union soldier during the Civil War?

Andersonville

What did Southerners call Lincoln's party?

Black Republicans

Which game rose to quick commercial success during the Civil War?

Checkered Game of Life

Which group developed a reputation for attacking Lincoln over his decision to make the Civil War about slavery?

Copperheads

In response to South Carolina's bombardment and capture of Fort Sumter, who said, "Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war..."?

Democrat Stephen Douglas

Which statement is NOT among the reasons that large parts of the South were under Union control by the spring of 1862?

England sided with the Union from the very beginning in opposition to slavery.

Why did Abraham Lincoln craft the early war effort with an eye toward preserving the Union?

He could not afford to lose the border states, which included Maryland.

Why did Abraham Lincoln send unarmed ships with food supplies to Fort Sumter in South Carolina?

He did not want to provoke a war.

Which advantage was critical for the Confederacy in the Civil War?

It did not need to occupy territory.

Which of the following was NOT among the aspects of the 1863 Conscription Act that made it so controversial?

It limited the draft to men only.

Which statement best describes the purpose of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War?

It tried to address all the consequences of death and injury in the battlefield.

Which of the following did NOT occur in response to President Abraham Lincoln's call for seventy-five thousand militiamen to put down the Southern rebellion?

It triggered draft riots in Northern urban communities like New York City.

Which state voted against secession?

Kentucky

Enslaved Black Americans in which location would have been immediately declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863?

New Orleans

Where in the United States during the Civil War did an angry mob burn down an orphanage for Black children?

New York City

Which statement Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is true?

Northern Democrats derided it as "dishwatery utterances."

Which statement was NOT among the reasons the Confederate State of America depended on the buy-in of the Upper South to be successful?

Northern generals dreaded having to fight in the hot climates of South Carolina and Alabama.

What lesson did General Ulysses S. Grant learn from the Battle of Shiloh?

The Confederacy could only be defeated by complete conquest.

What made the battle of Gettysburg a defeat for General Robert E. Lee?

The Confederates could not absorb the colossal scale of casualties incurred.

Which of the following is true regarding Civil War injuries?

The survival rate for amputees was only 3 out of 4.

Which statement is NOT among the reasons that Southerners were confident that the war would be brief?

They expected to rely heavily on their enslaved population to serve in combat.

Why did military personnel begin to let fugitives from slavery into their encampments?

They thought fugitives could offer useful labor and information.

It is fair to say that if General Ulysses S. Grant had not commanded the Union army in the western theater,

Vicksburg would have celebrated 4th of July in 1900.

By most measures, the first half of Abraham Lincoln's term in office can be summarized as

a colossal failure.

Which problem in the field hospitals of the Civil War armies was the most serious?

a lack of sanitary conditions

What was the strategic target of the First Battle of Bull Run?

a railroad junction in northern Virginia

Which medium was NOT among those by which civilians on the home front learned about events on the front lines?

action photographs from the battlefield

The Union's victory at Antietam came

almost a year and a half after Fort Sumter.

General George B. McClellan was NOT

an ardent admirer of President Abraham Lincoln.

How did South Carolinians see their own move toward secession?

as yet another revolution against an overbearing distant government

Grant's strategy in the wake of the Battle of Gettysburg can best be described as

attrition

The events at Fort Pillow in 1864 illustrate how

deeply visceral the South's reaction was to the North's empowerment of Black Americans.

The effects of the Union's invasion of the South during the Civil War can best be described as

devastating.

Who forced the issue of slavery onto the front burner in the political considerations driving the Civil War?

enslaved African Americans

Who expected to bear the brunt of the fighting in the Civil War?

farms, towns, and cities of the Upper South

Once the war was explicitly tied to emancipation,

more white Northerners embraced the idea of having Black Americans fight in the war.

The Richmond bread riots in the spring of 1863 were evidence that

occupation and blockade wrought significant deprivation on the Southern population.

Which event first turned the Union army into a viable alternative to slavery for enslaved Southerners?

passage of the Confiscation Act

What promise did Abraham Lincoln make to the Upper South in his inaugural address on March 4, 1861?

that he was not going to interfere with the institution of slavery where it exists

Which group might best be characterized as Confederate guerrillas or even terrorists?

the Bushwhackers

Which legal action did NOT authorize the use of formerly enslaved Black Americans in the Union's war effort?

the Emancipation Proclamation

Deep resentment among white Southerners in regions such as northern Alabama, the Carolina coastline, and much of Virginia was generated by

the long period of Union military occupation.

South Carolina's state legislature called a convention to consider the question of secession after

they received confirmation that Abraham Lincoln had been elected president of the United States.

For what purpose did Americans during the Civil War use pennyroyal?

to combat the smell of death

Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

took place under exceedingly generous terms.

In the New York Draft Riots, the Union had to fight a mini-Civil War against, among others, Irish immigrants.

true

It is fair to say that Benjamin Butler chose his words to describe fugitives from slavery in a deliberate twist of irony that called out the contradictions of chattel slavery.

true

The South's unofficial cotton embargo, meant to pressure Europeans into supporting the Confederacy, made the Union's naval blockade seem more effective.

true

When assessing the historical significance of South Carolina's secession, historians distinguish between the stated justifications and the actual causes that drove the decision.

true

When the Democratic member of Congress Clement Vallandigham from Ohio openly condemned the war on the floor of Congress, President Lincoln had him arrested and expelled to Tennessee.

true

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln

turned a controversial president into a martyr.

During their service in the Union armed forces, African American soldiers suffered LEAST from

uncertainty over the cause of the war.

It is fair to say that at the very beginning of the Civil War, the North

was utterly unprepared, despite its industrial edge.

How did John J. Crittenden from Kentucky hope to keep the South from seceding?

with an irrevocable constitutional amendment extending the geographical line of the Missouri Compromise