Chapter 14 A new birth of Freedom

The total population in the North was 22 million in 1860, while the white population of the South in 1860 was

5.5 Million

During the course of the Civil War, more men died in battle than from wounds, infections, or disease.

False

Government involvement in the economy was diminished as a consequence of the Civil War.

False

General William T. Sherman moved his forces from Tennessee into this state, seizing the main railroad center in 1864.

Georgia

George E. Pickett's crack division marched across an open field toward Union forces into withering gunfire in July 1863 at

Gettysburg

In what 1863 speech did Lincoln assert that the sacrifices of the Union soldiers would ensure that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth"?

Gettysburg Address

In an effort to expand the Confederacy into western regions, Confederate units from Texas launched an 1861 invasion into

New Mexico

What military action started the American Civil War?

The Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter.

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.

Which of the following describes the Battle of Antietam?

This was the bloodiest battle of the war.

As the Civil War progressed, millions of northerners who had not been abolitionists became convinced that preserving the Union as an embodiment of liberty required the destruction of slavery.

True

By making the Union army an agent of emancipation and joining together the goals of Union and abolition, the Emancipation Proclamation sounded the eventual death knell of slavery.

True

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

True

Never before the American Civil War, had mass armies confronted each other on the battlefield with the deadly weapons created by the industrial revolution.

True

The transformation of American government and society brought about by the Civil War was also called the Second American Revolution.

True

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

abolished slavery throughout the Union.

What did Frederick Douglass encourage African-Americans in the North to do as part of the war effort after 1863?

enlist in the United States Army

Abraham Lincoln's January 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation freed

some slaves, but exempted those in areas under Union contro

Which of the following was the Gettysburg Address specifically designed to communicate?

the importance of Union casualties over Confederate casualties

The Homestead Act

took effect on January 1, 1863, and offered 160 acres of free public land to settlers in the West.