Black Studies test 3 set 1

Of the roughly 186,000 Blacks who enlisted in the Union army, how many came from slave states?

134,000

In what year did Lincoln alter his policy to allow the Union army to enlist Black soldiers?

1862

Identify a true statement about the refugee camps set up during the Civil War.

Able-bodied men in these camps were recruited into the army.

Which of the following statements about southern Blacks' contribution to the Confederate military effort is LEAST accurate?

Although some states considered enlisting free Blacks, none went so far as to propose arming slaves.

F. E. Dumas, P. B. S. Pinchback, and Martin R. Delany were

Black soldiers who held commissions in the Union army.

When slaves fled to Union-held Fort Monroe, how did Benjamin Butler, the general in charge there, respond?

He declared that since the Confederates used slave labor for military purposes, Union forces could legitimately seize them and use them for their own purposes.

Which of the following statements BEST characterizes Lincoln's stance on emancipation through the spring of 1862?

He unsuccessfully urged Congress and the Border States to implement a plan of gradual compensated emancipation

What happened to Sergeant William Walker of the Third South Carolina Regiment after he led his men to stack their arms by their captain's tent and declare themselves released from duty because the army would not grant them equal pay?

He was executed by firing squad

Which of the following statements about Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is LEAST accurate?

It was widely ridiculed by African Americans and European liberals as an empty gesture.

What was the immediate cause of the secession of Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee from the Union?

Lincoln's call for additional troops after Confederate soldiers seized Fort Sumter

Which graduate of Oberlin College completed the sculpture Forever Free in 1867?

Mary Edmonia Lewis

The worst case of the mistreatment of Black troops occurred at Fort Pillow when Confederate forces under the command of _____ slaughtered Black soldiers.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Which of the following statements BEST captures northerners' attitude toward emancipation at the beginning of the Civil War?

Opposition to emancipation was strong in the North, particularly in regions settled by White southerners and among White laborers

Which of the following is true of Harriet Tubman?

She was a veteran slave rescuer who also served the Union as a spy

Whose memoir Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops provided a first-person account of the sort of laundering, cooking, and nursing that many female contrabands provided for the Union army?

Susie King Taylor

Which of the following statements about the education of contrabands is LEAST accurate?

The federal government developed a formal, coherent policy to guide the education of former slaves.

Which of the following statements about the four-day riot in New York City in 1863 is LEAST accurate?

The immediate trigger for the riot was the public pronouncement of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Which of the following statements about the Confederacy's impressment of slaves is MOST accurate?

The resistance of slaveholders, who often refused to relinquish their slaves, helped to render the policy of impressment ineffective.

Which of the following statements about Black soldiers in the Union army is LEAST accurate?

Their performance on the battlefield was uniformly disparaged by their White officers.

How did militant abolitionists view Abraham Lincoln during the election of 1860 and the first year of the Civil War?

They often opposed his policies, which they believed did not take a sufficiently firm or consistent stand against slavery.

Which general issued Special Order No. 15, which briefly placed Black families in possession of forty-acre tracts on the South Carolina Sea Islands?

William Tecumseh Sherman

Lincoln issued his preliminary emancipation proclamation five days after a Union victory at which battle?

antietam

Of all the roles that slaves undertook for the Confederate army, which of the following declined in importance and prevalence as the war continued?

body servants

On March 13, 1865, President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy signed into law an act that

called for additional troops regardless of their race

According to the Confiscation Act of 1862, slaves who fell into the hands of the Union army were to be regarded as

captives of war

Four Black soldiers of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry earned the Gilmore Medal for gallantry as a result of their participation at

fort wagner

With regard to the production of food, the states of the Confederacy

found it difficult to shift from the production of cash crops to the production of food, especially since slaves refused to learn the techniques of grain production.

African American women's activism resulted in the formation of organizations such as the Contraband Relief Association that were known for _____.

going south to minister to those formerly enslaved

On which date did Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation officially take effect?

january 1, 1863

Originally organized under the auspices of the Confederacy, the Native Guards consisted of free Blacks, including some Black slaveholders, from which state?

louisiana

A federal policy developed by General Rufus Saxton in late 1862 did all of the following EXCEPT

offer former slaves legal title to lands abandoned by Confederates.

Peter Herbert and Mary S. Peake were prominent examples of southern Blacks who

provided educational opportunities to contrabands

What did the phrase "running the Negroes" mean in the context of the Civil War?

removing slaves from the path of Union troops to make it harder for the slaves to escape

Slaves contributed labor to the Confederacy's essential Tredegar Works in which city?

richmond

Which enslaved pilot of the steamer the Planter intentionally surrendered his vessel to Union forces before beginning work for the Union navy?

robert smalls

During the Civil War, slavery in the South changed in all of the following ways EXCEPT

slaves engaged in a lot of violent uprisings throughout the South to facilitate slavery's end.

Which of the following states seceded from the Union after Lincoln was elected but before he came to office?

south carolina

Throughout most of the war, Lincoln believed that emancipation had to be coupled with

the voluntary emigration of freed people from the United States.

The Confederate Conscription Act of 1862 granted an exemption to White men who sent

twenty slaves in their place.

In 1864, the proposed Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery

was passed by the Senate but blocked by the Democrats in the House