CH 14 Review Quiz

Second Confiscation Act

1862 law that liberated slaves of disloyal owners in Union-occupied territory, as well as slaves who escaped across Union lines

Population in the north was 22 million in 1860, while the white population of the south in 1860 was

5.5 million

During the civil war instituted a draft, but the south never did

False

Government involvement in the economy decreased during the civil war

False

Over the course of the war, confederate troops were better supplied than union troops

False

The homestead act

Offered 160 acres of free public land to settlers in the west

As Lincoln withdrew forces in the West to protect areas in the East, tensions flared between the Indians and settlers, leading to

Sioux Indians killing hundreds of white farmers.

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.

What was the meaning of the civil war for poet Bret Harte

The war led to the sacrifice of individual soldiers

A major hindrance during the outbreak of war included this railroad situation.

There was no national railroad gauge so trains built for one line could not run on another.

What was general grants strategy in 1864 that became a turning point in the war for ultimate union victory

To use as many union troops on the battlefield as possible in a war of attrition

Lincoln was initially not concerned with the issue of slavery as his paramount concerns were to keep the border slave states in the Union and to build the broadest base of support in the North for the war effort.

True

More Americans died in the Civil War than in any other war in U.S. history.

True

During the first two years of the civil war most of the fighting took place in

Virginia and Maryland

Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. constitution, ratified in December 1865

abolished slavery throughout the Union.

Emancipation Proclamation freed

only slaves in the Confederate-controlled areas

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

Northern Republicans labeled those opposed to the war

Copperheads

What did Fredrick Douglass encourage African Americans in the north to do as part of the war effort after 1863

Enlist in the United States Army