APUSH Chapter 21 review
During the Civil War, Grant lost one man for every ____, and Lee lost one man for every ____.
10, 5
Arrange the following in chronological order: (A) the Battle of Bull Run, (B) the Battle of Gettysburg, (C) Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and (D) the Battle of Antietam.
A, D, B, C
In the 1864 election, Abraham Lincoln's running mate was
Andrew Johnson.
The Union army's success in the capture of ____ was probably critical to Lincoln's reelection in 1864.
Atlanta and Mobile
The two major battles of the Civil War fought on Union soil were
Bull Run and Vicksburg.
When it was issued in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation declared free only those slaves in
Confederate states still in rebellion against the United States.
Clement L. Vallandigham, a Southern sympathizer and vocal opponent of the war, was derisively labeled a
Copperhead.
A victory at Antietam probably would have won Confederate independence becauseA victory at Antietam probably would have won Confederate independence because
France and Britain were on the verge of recognizing the Confederate government.
In the l864 election, the Democratic party nominated ____ to oppose Lincoln's reelection.
George McClellan
As a result of the Union loss in the Peninsula Campaign
Lincoln began to draft the Emancipation Proclamation.
The group in the North most dangerous to the Union cause was the
Northern Peace Democrats.
Slavery was legally abolished in the United States by the
Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
In the election of 1864, the Republicans joined with the prowar Democrats and founded the ____ party
Union
The Battle of Gettysburg was significant because
Union victory meant that the Southern cause was doomed
The Confederacy enlisted slaves into their army
a month before the war ended.
As a theorist of warfare, General William T. Sherman was
a pioneer of the strategy of total warfare aimed at destroying civilian morale.
One consequence of General William T. Sherman's style of warfare was
a shorter war that saved lives.
General Ulysses S. Grant's basic strategy in the Civil War involved
assailing the enemy's armies simultaneously and directly.
During the Civil War
blacks were enlisted by the Union army only after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.
Robert E. Lee decided to invade the North through Pennsylvania in order to
deliver a decisive blow that would strengthen the Northern peace movement.
The Confederate blockade runner, the Merrimack, was
destroyed by Confederate soldiers to keep it out of the hands of Union troops.
All of the following occurred as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation except
growing upper-class European support for the Union.
In invading Maryland, one of Lee's key objectives was to
inspire the Border States to rise up and join the Confederacy.
After defeating McClellan at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Robert E. Lee decided to
invade the Union via Maryland.
The North's victory at Antietam allowed President Lincoln to
issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Union victory at Vicksburg was of major importance for all of the following reasons except
it was the last major battle of the Civil War.
Lincoln hoped that a Union victory at Bull Run would
lead to the capture of the Confederate capital at Richmond.
Southern slaves ran away to Union camps at the rate of
one in seven.
George B. McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac, is best described as
overly cautious.
Slaves hindered the Confederacy's war efforts in all of the following ways except
poisoning military food supplies
The Battle of Antietam was particularly critical because it
probably prevented intervention by Britain and France on behalf of the Confederacy.
At the beginning of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln favored
quick military action to show the folly of secession.
The South's victory at Bull Run in 1861
reduced enlistments in the South's army.
After assuming command of the Army of the Potomac, General George McClellan made the mistake of
relying on Lincoln's military judgment.
African Americans who fought for the Union Army in the Civil War
served bravely and suffered extremely heavy casualties.
Northern soldiers became increasingly convinced of slavery's evils when
slaves ran away to Union camps and persevered against all odds.
The Emancipation Proclamation had the effect of
strengthening the moral cause and diplomatic position of the Union.
After the Peninsula Campaign, Union strategy included all of the following except
striking deep into the Confederacy via the Appalachian Mountain chain
The supreme test of American democracy in the nineteenth century was
the Civil War.
As a result of the Confederate victory in the Peninsula Campaign
the Union turned to a strategy of total war.
One of the key developments enabling the Union to stop the Confederate thrust into the North at Antietam was
the Union's discovery of Robert E. Lee's battle plans.
Britain did not protest too loudly against the Union naval blockade of the Confederacy because
the blockade did not cut off cotton shipments.
The Union's defeat in battle at Bull Run in 1861 was better than a victory because
the defeat caused Northerners to face up to the reality of a long, difficult war.
The Civil War resulted in all of the following except
the end of protective tariffs and isolationism.
The most serious Confederate threat to the Union blockade came from
the ironclad Merrimack (renamed the Virginia).
Scholars dispute whether the Civil War marked a watershed in American history for all of the following reasons except
the lives of black and white Americans were not transformed by the war experience.
Aside from ending slavery, blacks enlisted into the Union Army because they
wanted to prove their manhood and increase their claim to full citizenship.
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
was a calamity for the South.
After halting Lee's troops at Antietam, General George McClellan
was removed from his field command.