Chapter 14 quiz US History

(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

(Q073) Later in life, Ulysses Grant traveled on a two-year world tour with his wife, and was generally greeted as a modern-day hero.

True

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

Virginia and Maryland.

(Q010) Spiritualism, in the sense that Mary Todd Lincoln and others perceived it,

grew in popularity with such devices as séances.

(Q003) Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

second Confiscation Act; Siege of Vicksburg; congressional passage of Thirteenth Amendment

Question 241 / 1 point (Q034) What did Germany and the United States have in common by 1865?

the experience of unifying a nation

(Q046) Many late-nineteenth-century "captains of industry" made their initial fortunes during the Civil War.

True

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

5.5 million

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

False

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

False

(Q052) Abraham Lincoln was a firm supporter of votes for black Americans prior to the Civil War.

False

(Q067) Religion was not an integral part of the Civil War outside of local personal beliefs and practices.

False

(Q006) Which of the following is a true statement about Ulysses S. Grant before the Civil War?

He resigned from the army in part because of allegations of excessive drinking

(Q019) In 1860, Union forces destroyed the orchards and sheep of this tribe and forced 8,000 of their people to move to a new reservation, a forced removal known as the

Navajo's Long Walk

(Q027) Which of the following was a Confederate advantage in fighting the Civil War?

The southern commander, General Lee, was a skilled tactician who hoped that a series of defeats would weaken the North's resolve.

(Q041) Clara Barton never received compensation from the government for her work as a nurse in the Civil War.

True

(Q050) 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

(Q012) At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862,

northern forces suffered one of their worst defeats of the war.

(Q021) The Homestead Act

offered 160 acres of free public land to settlers in the West.

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

some slaves, but exempted those in areas under Union control.

(Q037) What major engineering feat was undertaken during the Civil War and completed at war's end?

the Capitol Dome

(Q018) Of the more than 180,000 black men who served in the Union army during the Civil War, how many died of disease, of wounds, or in battle?

1/3

(Q022) By 1862, how many states composed the Confederate States of America?

11

(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

(Q057) In March 1865, the month before the Civil War ended, the Confederate Congress authorized the arming of slaves to fight for the South.

True

(Q060) The Battle of Gettysburg is the largest battle ever fought on the North American continent.

True

(Q063) Lincoln referred to the United States in speeches primarily as a "nation," and not the "Union," by the end of the Civil War.

True

(Q066) The transformation of American government and society brought about by the Civil War was also called the Second American Revolution.

True

(Q069) During the Civil War, the Confederate Congress authorized military officers to seize farm goods to supply the army, paying with increasingly worthless Confederate money.

True