Chapter 11 history

Quiz 3 True/False: At (Fort Pillow), the worst Confederate prison camp, where men were jammed together without shelter and drank from the same stream that served as their sewer, nearly a third of the prisoners died.

False- Andersonville

Quiz 5 True/False: The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves only in the (border) states.

False- Confederate

Quiz 3 True/False: During the war, the Confederacy faced a severe shortage of (nurses) that led to skyrocketing prices and riots in the streets.

False- Food

Quiz 3 True/False: At (Andersonville), Confederate troops shot to death more than 200 African-American prisoners as they pleaded for their lives.

False- Fort Pillow

Quiz 5 True/False: After the war, (William Tecumseh Sherman) remained in the army and spent most of his time fighting Native Americans in the West.

False- George Armstrong Custer

Quiz 5 True/False: (Garland White) shot President Lincoln just five days after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.

False- John Wilkes Booth

Quiz 5 True/False: The (income tax law) of 1863 helped businesses and made banking safer for investors.

False- National Currency Act

Quiz 5 True/False: In 1881, Clara Barton helped found the American branch of the (United Way), an agency whose aim is to relieve human suffering.

False- Red Cross

Quiz 3 True/False: In 1863, the (Confederacy) instituted the first income tax, taking a specified percentage of an individual's income.

False- Union

Quiz 3 True/False: (Clara Barton), a Union nurse, was known as the "angel of the battlefield."

True

Quiz 3 True/False: The U.S. Sanitary Commission was set up to improve the hygienic conditions of army camps and to recruit and train (nurses).

True

Quiz 5 True/False: The (Thirteenth Amendment) abolished slavery throughout the United States.

True

Why is the Battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point in the Civil War? a. It made the South give up the idea of invading the North. b. It divided the Confederacy. c. It convinced the Confederacy to surrender. d. It marked the first Union victory on the battlefield.

a. It made the South give up the idea of invading the North.

Map: What happened at Vicksburg? a. The city surrendered after a long siege by Union forces. b. The city surrendered immediately to Union forces. c. Confederate troops won a victory after a long fight. d. Troops led by Sherman and Johnston fought to a standstill.

a. The city surrendered after a long siege by Union forces.

___ helped Lincoln win reelection in 1864. a. Union victories in the South b. Confederate victories in the North c. A lack of political opponents d. The Copperheads

a. Union victories in the South

Grant and Sherman's strategy of total war targeted not only the Confederate army but also ___. a. the civilian population of the South b. the South's population of enslaved Africans c. Northern citizens sympathetic to the South d. Native Americans who were not loyal to the United States

a. the civilian population of the South

___ was not part of the Union's three-part plan to conquer the South. a. Blockading Southern ports b. Drafting freed slaves to fight for the Union c. Capturing the Confederate capital d. Splitting the Confederacy in two

b. Drafting freed slaves to fight for the Union

Why was David Farragut's victory in April 1862 so important? a. It protected the Union capital from a Confederate takeover. b. It advanced the Union plan to split the Confederacy along the Mississippi River. c. It made the South give up the idea of invading the North. d. It boosted morale throughout the South and prompted Lee to invade the North.

b. It advanced the Union plan to split the Confederacy along the Mississippi River.

Map: How long did the siege of Vicksburg last? a. about 6 days b. about 6 weeks c. about 1 month d. about 3 months

b. about 6 weeks

During the war, ___ did not contribute to the food shortage in the South. a. the drain of manpower into the army b. bad weather causing poor crops c. Union occupation of food-growing areas d. the loss of slaves to work in the fields

b. bad weather causing poor crops

One effect of the Emancipation Proclamation was that it ___. a. immediately freed Southern slaves b. gave a moral purpose to the war c. united the Republican Party d. kept Great Britain out of the war

b. gave a moral purpose to the war

Clara Barton worked as a ___ in the Civil War. a. Red Cross volunteer b. nurse on the battlefield c. military captain d. federal clerk

b. nurse on the battlefield

What was Clara Barton's role in the Civil War? a. Red Cross volunteer b. nurse on the battlefield c. ordinary soldier d. federal clerk

b. nurse on the battlefield

Which of the following abolished slavery in the North? a. the Gettysburg Address b. the Thirteenth Amendment c. the Compromise of 1850 d. the Emancipation Proclamation

b. the Thirteenth Amendment

What was the stated aim of the Emancipation Proclamation? a. to free all slaves in the United States b. to free slaves behind Confederate lines c. to free slaves in Union slave states d. to enlist slaves in the Union army

b. to free slaves behind Confederate lines

Which of the following quotations is from the Gettysburg Address? a. "We are not prepared for this suffrage. But we can learn." b. "All persons held as slaves within any State . . . in rebellion against the United States, shall be . . . forever free." c. "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." d. "You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, . . . determined people on earth."

c. "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."

What is the main reason that Lincoln did not respond with force to the Confederate threat to attack Fort Sumter? a. He wanted the Union to fire the first shots in the war. b. He wished to treat the Confederacy as a legitimate nation. c. He did not want to anger Republicans and slave states still in the Union. d. He had decided to abandon Fort Sumter.

c. He did not want to anger Republicans and slave states still in the Union.

Because it was one of only two Confederate holdouts preventing the Union from taking complete control of the Mississippi River, Grant focused on capturing ___. a. New Orleans b. Baton Rouge c. Vicksburg d. Gettysburg

c. Vicksburg

The Battle of Gettysburg was not ___. a. the last time the South invaded the North b. a battle with heavy casualties on both sides c. the battle that cut the Confederacy in two d. a devastating defeat for the Confederates

c. the battle that cut the Confederacy in two

When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln's main goal? a. to abolish slavery b. to punish the South c. to restore the Union d. to bring an end to the war

c. to restore the Union

Which of the following was not an important advantage of ironclad ships? a. They could resist burning. b. They could withstand cannon fire. c. They could splinter wooden ships. d. They could travel much faster than other ships.

d. They could travel much faster than other ships.

Map: What did Sherman's troops do after leaving Vicksburg? a. They headed north towards the Yazoo River. b. They headed west to join Grant's troops. c. They returned to Champion Hill. d. They headed east to prevent Johnston's troops from reaching Vicksburg.

d. They headed east to prevent Johnston's troops from reaching Vicksburg.

While serving in the Union army, African Americans faced all of the following except ___. a. discrimination b. lower pay than whites c. higher mortality rates than whites d. excessively high income taxes

d. excessively high income taxes

In which area did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War? a. food production b. civilian leadership c. industrial capacity d. military leadership

d. military leadership

Lincoln suspended ___ to deal with dissent in the Union states. a. voting rights for free African Americans b. harsh sentences for draft rioters c. conscription of men over 35 years of age d. the writ of habeas corpus

d. the writ of habeas corpus