US HIST Chapter 14 GML

Northern Republicans labeled those opposed to the war

Copperheads

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

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

5.5 million

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

Abolished slavery throughout the Union

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

grew in popularity with such devices as séances

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 Adress

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

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

Irish Immigrants

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, which is called

Navajo's Long Walk

What military action started the American Civil War?

The Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter

In an effort to expand the Confederacy into western areas, Confederate units from Texas in 1861 invaded

New Mexico

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

Most of the Union's victories in the first two years of the war occurred in the West, especially at

Shiloh and New Orleans

Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation immediately following

The battle of Antietam

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

Which of the following describes the Battle of Antietam?

This was the bloodiest battle of the war

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

Virginia and Maryland

A Sanitary Fair is

a grand bazaar that raised money for the care of Union soldiers

At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862,

northern forces suffered one of their worst defeats of the war

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

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

The Emancipation Proclamation freed:

some slaves, but exempted those in areas under Union control

At Vicksburg in July 1863,

the Union, under Ulysses S. Grant's leadership, was victorious

The Homestead Act

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

Rose Greenhow

was a Confederate spy in Washington, D.C.