The United Nation Chapter 14: The Civil War

After General McClellan allowed Lee to retreat into Virginia following Antietam Creek, Lincoln removed McClellan from command.

True

After the Battle of Chattanooga, the Confederacy's only hope was to hold on and exhaust the Northern will to fight.

True

Had the Union not taken Atlanta in September of 1864, Lincoln might have lost the presidency to McClellan.

True

Lincoln's handling of the war effort faced constant scrutiny from the congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War, which seriously interfered with his work.

True

Many Southerners believed that the dependence of English and French textile industries on American cotton would force them to intervene on the side of the Confederacy.

True

No European nation offered diplomatic recognition to the Confederacy.

True

The Crittenden Compromise failed because Republicans refused to give in on the question of the expansion of slavery.

True

Scalawags

White southerners who supported the republican party during reconstruction.

What did the Seneca falls conventions promote?

Women's rights

Sherman's march through Georgia was designed to

break the will of the Southern people.

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 United States was upset when England declared neutrality because

it meant that the two sides in the conflict were of equal stature.

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

King Cotton diplomacy

was a failure.

Despite many shortages, the South was at least able to grow enough food to meet its needs.

False

In both the North and the South, the draft was accepted with little protest.

False

Technological advances made little difference in the outcome of the Civil War, since both sides had access to them.

False

The Civil War transformed the North from an agrarian to an industrial society.

False

The Confederate government was composed of the most radical Southern secessionists.

False

The Republican Party did little to promote economic development during the war.

False

Though outmanned on the land, the Confederacy held the advantage at sea.

False

The first battle of the Civil War was

First Bull Run.

What were the two victories the Union forces had?

Gettysburg, Virginia and Vicksburg, Mississippi

What is an example of a primary source?

"Common Sense" by Thomas Payne

What did the Emancipation Proclamation state?

Abraham Lincoln stated that all slaves were free except in places already occupied by union forces.

Which of the following was true when the Civil War began?

All the important material advantages lay with the North.

The first seven Southern states that seceded were

All these answers are correct.

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

All these answers are correct.

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

Antietam.

What is another name for the battle of Murfreesboro?

Battle of stone river

What was one technological advance of the civil war?

Early submarines/hot air balloons

African Americans were not allowed to serve in organized fighting units.

False

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

No state has the right to secede from the Union; however, the federal government does not have the authority to stop a state from seceding from the nation.

Carpetbaggers

Recent arrivals from regions in the north.

What is another name for Fair Oaks?

Seven Pines

Which of the following battles was fought in the western theatre?

Shiloh

What was the end of reconstruction in the south?

The compromise of 1877

What is another name for the first battle of Manassas?

The first battle of bull run

How did the railroad improve after the civil war?

They got a standard gauge.

What is the significance of the Monitor and the Merrimac?

They were unsinkable

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.

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.