Give Me Liberty Quiz Ch. 14

The Homestead Act

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

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 not one of these advances?

radios

Which of the following best describes Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?

relatively lenient

Abraham Lincoln's January 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation freed

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

What military action started the American Civil War?

the Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter

Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation immediately following

the battle of Antietam.

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

1/3

Northerners opposed to the Union cause were known as

Copperheads.

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

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

Gettysburg.

Which of the following is significant about the Battle of Antietam?

It was the bloodiest battle of the war, with nearly 4,000 men killed.

Which is not true of the battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862?

NOT: General McClellan and the Army of the Potomac followed their victory at Antietam with a rapid "lightning strike" into the South, both against General Robert E. Lee's forces and against the City of Richmond. Was: 1. It was the bloodiest day of fighting in American history; more died at Antietam than at D-Day in World War II. 2. Nearly 4,000 men were killed and 2,000 of those wounded later died. 3. Southern forces under the command of General Robert E. Lee were repelled in their northern advance by General McClellan and the Army of the Potomac.

Which of the following groups was not a major target of the New York City draft riots?

NOT: Irish immigrants Was: 1. conscription officials 2. affluent Republicans 3. African-Americans

Which of the following was not a significant wartime development?

NOT: The harder things went for the Confederacy, the more unified its citizens became. Was: 1. Women on both sides assumed many roles traditionally reserved for men. 2. What began as a war to preserve the union gradually expanded into a war to end slavery. 3. Northerners came to think of America more as a single nation than as a union of separate states.

Which was not true of black soldiers during the Civil War?

NOT: They fought mostly for the North, but tens of thousands also fought for the South. Was: 1. They initially received lower pay than white soldiers. 2. They were disproportionately assigned to labor rather than combat. 3. They could not attain the rank of commissioned officer in the early years of the war.

Which of the following was not a significant factor behind the Union's defeat of the Confederacy?

NOT: a growing conviction on the part of Confederate soldiers that slavery was wrong Was: 1. pro-Union initiatives on the part of the slaves 2. the ruthless resolve of Union generals like Grant and Sherman 3. the superior material resources of the North

Which of the following was not a major thrust of expanded federal activity during the war?

NOT: protection of labor's right to organize Was: 1. promotion of westward expansion 2. restriction of public expression 3. issuance of paper money

Who was the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia?

Robert E. Lee

What was the result of the battle at Vicksburg in July 1863?

The Union, under U.S. Grant's leadership, was victorious

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.

A "civil war" refers to

a war between political factions or regions within the same country.

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

abolished slavery throughout the Union.

During the Civil War, the term "contraband camps" was used to refer to

camps of fugitive slaves

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

eleven