Chapter 14

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(Q031) What did Frederick Douglass encourage African-Americans in the North to do as part of the war effort after 1863?

enlist in the United Sates Army

(Q045) Over the course of the war, Confederate troops were better supplied than Union troops.

true

(Q025) The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in December 1865,

abolished slavery throughout the Union.

(Q049) During the Civil War, the North instituted a draft, but the South never did.

false

(Q053) Government involvement in the economy decreased during the Civil War.

False

(Q004) Which of the following groups was a major target of the New York City draft riots?

Irish immigrants

(Q005) 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.

(Q039) More Americans died in the Civil War than in any other war in U.S. history.

True

(Q042) 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

(Q030) During the first two years of the Civil War, most of the fighting took place in

Virginia and Maryland

(Q014) 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 one of these advances?

radios

(Q021) The Homestead Act

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

(Q011) 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.

(Q036) What was the meaning of the Civil War for poet Bret Harte?

The war led to the sacrifice of individual soldiers.

(Q017) Abraham Lincoln's January 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation freed

some slaves, but exempted those in areas under Union control

(Q001) Northern Republicans labeled those opposed to the war

Copperheads

(Q027) 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 army throughout the entire war.

(Q013) Population in the North was 22 million in 1860, while the white population of the South in 1860 was

5.5 million

(Q016) The Second Confiscation Act

liberated slaves of disloyal owners in Union-occupied territory, as well as slaves who escaped to Union lines.

(Q038) What was General Grant's strategy in 1864 that became a turning point in the war for ultimate Union victory?

to base his troops in Canada for a final assault against Lee's army in Virginia


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