HIS 1043 Chapter 15

By the spring of 1862, Union troops had successfully occupied portions of which states west of the Mississippi?

1) Missouri 2) Louisiana 3) Arkansas

Because of the Emancipation Proclamation, it became less likely that the Confederacy would be recognized by which of the following countries?

1) Russia 2) Great Britain

Which of the following provisions were included in the first federal law to abolish slavery?

1) Slaveholders were compensated for the loss of their slaves. 2) Former slaves were encouraged to to go to a colony in Africa.

Which of the following best describes how the U.S. Navy was able to achieve an effective naval blockade of the South?

Union ships were able to secure important Southern Atlantic harbors.

The first federal law to abolish slavery affected

Washington, D.C.

In the North, President Lincoln was regarded as which of the following after his assassination?

a martyr

Most Confederate soldiers serving in the Civil War believed they were fighting against

a northern invasion.

How did uniforms play a role in guerrilla warfare in the border states and the occupied South?

1) Some soldiers and guerrillas did not wear uniforms at all, which caused confusion among civilians. 2) Soldiers sometimes wore the uniforms of the opposing side to conceal their identities.

On the battlefield, Confederate troops treated black Union soldiers differently in which of the following ways?

1) Southern forces would not honor the conventional rules of combat. 2) Southern forces often shot at black soldiers rather than holding them as prisoners of war. 3) Southern forces would kill black soldiers after they surrendered.

For which of the following reasons did General McDowell's invasion fail?

1) Spies informed the South about the forthcoming invasion. 2) General McDowell's troops moved to Manassas too slowly.

Which of the following statements about prisoners during the Civil War are accurate?

1) The commander of a Confederacy prison was executed for war crimes. 2) Soldiers were statistically more likely to die in a prisoner-of-war camp than on the battlefield. 3) More than 10,000 Union soldiers perished in a prison in Georgia.

In 1863, the Union considered allowing free and contraband blacks to serve in its military for which of the following reasons?

1) The need for Union soldiers was greater than the number of available whites. 2) Northern whites were becoming more willing to allow blacks to fight for the Union. 3) More soldiers were needed for the occupation force in the South.

Which of the following describes a motivation of Union military personnel to violate national fugitive slave policies?

1) They personally supported emancipation. 2) They supported efforts to stop using soldiers to catch runaway slaves. 3) They used runaway slaves as valuable sources of military intelligence.

Throughout 1863, Union soldiers' attitudes toward emancipation became more positive for which of the following reasons?

1) They saw and appreciated black contribution to the war effort. 2) They wanted to avoid being associated with the Copperheads.

Which of the following were reactions of Southerners to the military occupation of Union soldiers?

1) They sent their slaves away. 2) They left their homes.

In which of the following ways was everyday life in Southern cities and towns interrupted by Union military occupation?

1) Trade became more difficult. 2) Food and fuel were less available. 3) Jobs became harder to find.

To convince Southern states to secede, secession commissioners claimed that the so-called "Black Republicans" planned to

1) abolish slavery. 2) established social and political equality for blacks.

President James Buchanan's proposals to convince the South to return to the Union included which of the following?

1) backing the annexation of Cuba as a slave state 2) returning runaway slaves

Which two of the following Civil War photographic subjects were the most common?

1) camp life 2) death

After the Confederacy surrendered, enslaved people

1) changed the terms of service with former masters. 2) settled scores with their former masters. 3) left plantations to seek new lives.

The United States Sanitary Commission

1) conducted studies of hygiene issues in the military. 2) enlisted and educated nurses.

The North's planned invasion of the Manassas railroad junction in Virginia was expected to

1) disrupt the supply lines for the South. 2) undermine the South's confidence.

Laws passed by Congress during the Civil War

1) founded veteran welfare programs. 2) encouraged growth in the West. 3) created new revenue streams.

A provision of the Conscription Act of 1863 allowed military service to be avoided by draftees by

1) hiring a substitute. 2) paying $300 bounty.

General Sherman's capture of Atlanta in 1864 was significant because

1) it rebuilt Northern support for the way the President was running the war. 2) it was one of the few industrial cities still controlled by the South. 3) it contributed to Lincoln's victory in the 1864 election.

The states of the Upper South were important to the secessionist movement because they had a majority of the South's

1) livestock. 2) industrial capacity. 3) population.

Congress passed the Conscription Act of 1863 in order to address

1) low morale. 2) the lack of willing soldiers.

In response to the secession of some Southern states, who supported the Union made plans to

1) prevent the secession of other states. 2) convince the seceded states to return.

In the United States, the small size of federal bureaucracies meant that states took charge of the effort to

1) recruit soldiers. 2) negotiate with arms dealers.

When General Grant became the chief Union general, his strategy to defeat the confederacy included which of the following?

1) reinforce the edge held by the North in terms of manpower 2) kill as many Confederate soldiers as possible in battle 3) stop releasing Confederate prisoners of war

Which of the following information technologies were key to the mass sharing news during the Civil War?

1) telegraphs 2) newspapers

The Confederacy believe that the Civil War would be short-lived because

1) the British government would recognize the Confederacy and become involved in the conflict. 2) the Union would be unable to conquer and control the vast land of the South.

After the middle of 1863, the Union stopped releasing and exchanging prisoners of war because

1) the South had fewer soldiers overall. 2) the South would not grant black soldiers prisoner-of-war status.

In the Gettysburg Address, President Lincoln stated his belief that the Civil War was about

1) the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. 2) freedom and equality.

As the Union military forces gained ground in the Confederacy,

1) the number of people who became contrabands of war increased. 2) they became more dependent on the labor of African Americans. 3) more fugitive slaves arrived at Union camps.

During the election of 1864, Democrats wanted

1) to continue the war but end emancipation. 2) to sue for peace and end the war.

Both the Union and the Confederacy wanted to ensure that corpses on battlefields were disposed for which of the following reasons?

1) to keep morale steady among soldiers 2) to show respect for the dead 3) to address issues of hygiene

When General Lee surrendered to General Grant on April 9, 1865 his soldiers

1) were given immunity from charges of treason. 2) were allowed to keep their horses.

When the Confederacy formed in 1860, ___________ was its first president.

Jefferson Davis

Within days of Lincoln's call for militiamen, which of the following states seceded from the Union?

1) Arkansas 2) Tennessee 3) Virginia

Senator John J. Crittenden's proposals to bring about national reconciliation with the South included the promise to prohibit

1) Congress from making slavery illegal in Washington, D.C., except under certain circumstances. 2) federal interference with slavery in states where it was legal in 1861.

For which of the following reasons did President Lincoln's attitude towards the issue of slavery change over time?

1) He was less concerned about losing the support of loyal border states. 2) He saw that the war would not be over quickly. 3) He saw less purpose in gaining Union support in seceded states.

Which of the following describes a significance of the Battle of Antietam?

1) It was the first victory for the union on the eastern front. 2) It was bloodiest battle to date for the United States.

During the Civil War, disease spread faster for which of the following reasons?

1) Large numbers of troops and refugees were moving throughout the country. 2) There were many dead and wounded soldiers from the conflict.

Which of the following describe why the Confederacy was unable to expand westward during the Civil War?

1) Apache and Navajo Indians resisted Southern expansion. 2) The Union won a battle against the Confederacy at Glorieta Pass.

True or false: Initially, most Union soldiers wanted to fight for the emancipation of slaves.

False

The federal resupplying of Fort Sumter was a politically delicate issue because the fort was located in

South Carolina

Which of the following best describes the South's advantage during the Civil War?

The war would be primarily fought in Southern territory.

The Union began recruiting its so-called Colored Troops in parts of New England for which of the following reasons?

There would be little political resistance there to giving arms to blacks.

In which of the following ways did black soldiers serving in the Union military experience discrimination?

They did not receive the same pay as whites.

Which of the following best describes what happened to fugitive slaves who came to General Butler's camps in Virginia?

They found shelter and employment.

In Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address in 1861, he promised to _________ slavery in states where it was legal.

allow

Before taking office as president, Abraham Lincoln would not negotiate on which of the following issues?

allowing slavery to be extended into territories that had not yet joined the Union

When a convention of the South Carolina state legislature voted to secede, they did so

alone.

The Virginia, the original ironclad warship developed by the Confederacy, was a wooden ship with

an armor plate.

According to the Thirteenth Amendment, slavery was allowed

as a criminal punishment.

The Battle of Gettysburg began when General Lee

attempted to invade the North.

In response to the Confederate action at Fort Sumter, the North

became more patriotic.

The fundamental belief of the new Confederate government was that

blacks were naturally subordinate to whites.

Though amputation saved many soldiers' lives during the Civil War, _________ medical practices were the norm.

dirty

The south had _______ pro-Confederacy pictorial magazines compared to the pro-Union publications available in the North.

fewer

For the Union to achieve victory, it needed to

forcibly gain control of Confederate states.

By selling less cotton to Great Britain and France, the South hoped to

gain international recognition of the Confederacy.

By the end of July 1862, President Lincoln fully changed his position on how to defeat the Confederacy and focused on

gaining the support of blacks for the Union's war effort.

The number of casualties in the First Battle of Bull Run was ___________ those in previous battles on American soil.

greater than

In Union-controlled Missouri, which of the following was implemented during the Civil War?

martial law

George B. McClellan, head of the Union's Army of the Potomac, attacked the South __________ in the ten months before his march on Richmond.

once

In the Confederacy, approximately _________ of the population was enslaved.

one-third

In March 1862, a new law passed by Congress

prohibited officers from returning runaway slaves.

Secessionists offered the argument of ___________ to attract nonslaveholding whites to their cause.

racial primacy

After Fort Sumter, areas with slave owners and significant slave populations in the Upper South were more likely to be in favor of

seceding from the Union.

The seven states that left the Union and formed the Confederacy used the concept of ___________ to defend their right to secede.

state sovereignty

In 1863, ___________ was developing the United States government into a stronger entity.

the Republican party

Under the Militia Act passed by Congress in 1862, slaves were emancipated if they became employed by

the Union Army.

It was generally believed by both Abraham Lincoln's government and the Confederacy that the outcome of the secessionist movement depended on

the Upper South.

During the Civil War, coffins were created of new materials and designs to address which of the following issues?

the need to ship soldiers' corpses long distances

During the first two years of the war, Lincoln tried to focus on __________ as the main reason for the North's involvement.

the preservation of the national union

Many slaveholders in the Upper South wanted to remain in the Union to protect

their property.

General Grant's forces prevailed in the Battle of Shiloh, during which there were ________ casualties for both the Union and the Confederacy.

thousands of

The South sidestepped the issue of slavery at the beginning of the Civil War for which of the following reasons?

to allow for the possibility that Great Britain might recognize the Confederacy

The South's mail service was

unreliable.

In the 1864 elections, President Lincoln and the Republicans

won by a wide margin.