Hist 8 - Ch 16

When the Civil War began, the South had all of the following advantages

1) Confederate soldiers were fighting on familiar terrain. 2) important support from the civilian population. 3) southern troops only had to fight a defensive war to win.

Thirty-seven thousand African American servicemen gave their lives as Union soldiers in the U.S. Civil War, a rate of loss about 40 percent higher than that among white soldiers. Why did black soldiers fight and die so fiercely?

1) The freedom of their race hung in the balance. 2)They hoped to win their civil rights after the war. 3)More than for a white soldier, their capture by rebel forces might mean death.

What 3 statements are true about the impact of the war?

1) The loss of life nearly equaled the combined battle deaths of all of America's other wars. 2) The nation's political balance of power shifted dramatically. 3) The principle that the American union is perpetual was established

The Civil War marked a significant change in the history of human warfare, in the following ways

1) The technology of weaponry gave the defense the advantage over the offense. 2) The complexity, size, and spatial spread of the armies on the battlefield jumped in magnitude. 3) It was the first total war in history.

During the war, women of both the North and the South did all of the following

1) enter the formerly male professions of nursing and teaching. 2) take jobs in the growing government bureaucracies. 3) run farms and plantations.

The battle at Antietam Creek was significant for all the following reasons

1) provided an occasion for Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation. 2) repulsed a Confederate invasion of the North. 3) was the bloodiest single-day battle in the history of American warfare.

The North raised money to support the war effort through all of the following methods

1) raising taxes. 2) loans (i.e., government bonds). 3) printing paper money.

When the Civil War began, the North had all of the following advantages

1) superior political leadership 2) a much larger population 3) a much greater industrial capacity

Slaves in the border states and other areas not controlled by the Confederacy were freed by the ________ Amendment.

13th

By the end of the Civil War

Confederate leaders had taken steps to end slavery as a part of the war effort

Republicans gave the scornful nickname of ________ to northerners who opposed the war effort.

Copperheads

. One component of the Republican economic legislation passed during the war was the ________, which provided 160 acres of public land to settlers who would farm for five years.

Homestead Act

What was Jefferson Davis's central problem in organizing the South for war?

In a society that prized states' rights, Davis had to centralize authority.

Which of the following statements accurately describes the role of cotton in the Confederacy's effort to gain international recognition?

King cotton diplomacy failed to win either substantial aid or recognition because of adequate cotton supplies worldwide

The significance, militarily, of the battle of Gettysburg was that

Lee could never again take the offensive as he liked to do.

What is true about African Americans during the Civil War?

Many slaves escaped to Union lines, where they were put to work or even allowed to join the army.

________ was the celebrated Virginian who led the Army of Northern Virginia so well for so long, but who finally had to surrender to Ulysses S. Grant.

Robert E Lee

Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement about Civil War soldiering?

The lower classes of society, rather than the typical farmer or shopkeeper, made up a disproportionate share of each army.

Battle of Antietem in Maryland that was the bloodiest single day in American history. T/F

True

Contraband of War, a term that was eventually given to former slaves. T/F

True

Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri were known as the border states. T/F

True

Dissidents in one southern state created which new border state?

West Virginia

A significant plank in the 1864 Union party platform was

a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery.

The early volunteers of 1861 expected to fight

a restrained war that upheld their moral code

West Virginia became

a separate state rather than secede from the Union.

The Emancipation Proclamation

applied only to those areas in rebellion against the Union.

In July 1861, the Crittenden Resolution declared that the war was

being fought solely to preserve the Union.

The chapter introduction tells the story of the first battle of Manassas (Bull Run) to make the point that

both sides underestimated what it would be like to fight a total war.

To obtain sufficient manpower for their armies, both the North and the South not only called for volunteers but also instituted, for the first time in U.S. history, the controversial device of a(n)

draft

The Union war effort began by implementing the strategy embodied in General Winfield Scott's "anaconda plan," which called for

encircling and squeezing the Confederacy with a naval blockade.

What was the first Union success of the war?

holding the border states in the Union

Both the South and the North experienced rioting during the war. Why?

in the South over food; in the North over the draft

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation declared slaves to be free

in those areas of the South under Confederate control.

In the North, one consequence of the war was to

open the teaching profession to women

Lincoln, later revered as the Great Emancipator, ironically infringed on the civil liberties of northerners during the Civil War—specifically by

suspending the writ of habeas corpus in specified areas in the North.

Although at the outset European experts expected the Confederacy to prevail, the North won, demonstrating that in modern war, ________ can offset ________.

technology; terrain and distance

One significant difference between the Confederacy and the North was that

the South became poorer, while the North tended to prosper.

At the beginning of the Civil War, which one of the following factors favored the South?

the fact that the fighting would be on southern soil

During the Civil War, President Lincoln

took unprecedented steps against people accused of disloyalty or antiwar activity.

During the Civil War

twice as many troops died from diseases as from battle wounds.

With respect to slavery, Lincoln at first ________, but later he ________.

worried about alienating the border states; proclaimed, as a military measure, that slaves in rebel areas were free