Chapter 14 Learning Curve
By the spring of 1865, about how many African Americans were serving in the Union army?
200,000
How did African Americans precipitate the adoption of the policy of emancipation?
By slaves escaping across Union lines
Which announcement by Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in the rebellious states and gave the war a moral and political purpose?
Emancipation Proclamation
On July 3, 1863, Robert E. Lee sent 14,000 men under the command of which general into a desperate frontal assault against the Union lines along Cemetery Ridge at the Gettysburg battlefield?
George Pickett
Why was Maryland a strategic location that Abraham Lincoln was determined to keep in the Union?
It covered the nation's capital on three sides.
Why was General George B. McClellan relieved of his command of the Army of the Potomac by Abraham Lincoln in 1862?
Lincoln thought McClellan lacked the nerve to use his troops to achieve a major victory.
What justification did Abraham Lincoln give for announcing the emancipation policy?
Military necessity
Which southern city did U.S. Admiral David Farragut capture in 1862?
New Orleans
In July 1863, hostility to the draft, especially among Irish and German immigrants, erupted into five days of violent rioting and murder in what city?
New York City
In 1864, Ulysses S. Grant sent troops under which general to punish Shenandoah Valley residents for supplying Confederate troops?
Philip Sheridan
What factor made it important to Abraham Lincoln to keep Kentucky and Maryland in the Union?
Strategic location
What loophole of the South's draft was controversial?
The ability of draftees to hire substitutes
This photo of a little girl holding a picture of a deceased soldier at the time of the Civil War is illustrative of what trend?
The creation of new industries and cultural rituals associated with death
In the South, women worked as civil servants in what part of the Confederate government?
The postal service