Chapter 15 50 questions

Which statement describes the response in the loyal border states of Missouri and Kentucky during the Civil War?

A violent pro-southern minority remained sympathetic to the southern cause.

The bloodiest day of the Civil War occurred September 17, 1862, at

Antietam Creek, Maryland.

According to Map 15.1: Secession, 1860-1861, which slave state seceded from the Union?

Arkansas

Women often served which role during the Civil War?

As government secretaries

Who founded the Red Cross after serving as a nurse in Union battlefield units during the Civil War?

Clara Barton

Which event marked the official beginning of armed hostilities between the North and South in April 1861?

Confederates firing on Fort Sumter

Initially the Confederacy pursued King Cotton diplomacy, a strategy based on the belief that

Europe's need for cotton would lead them to support the Confederacy.

Why did King Cotton diplomacy fail?

European nations turned to Egypt and India for cotton.

Which general won the battle of Gettysburg?

George G. Meade

Which statement describes an irony that emerges when considering the wartime leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis?

The inexperienced Lincoln proved to be a more adept leader than the seasoned Davis.

Why did President Lincoln choose not to make the Civil War a struggle over slavery?

He did not believe the Constitution gave him the power to abolish slavery.

Which statement describes General William T. Sherman's strategy for defeating the Confederates in Georgia in 1864?

He orchestrated a scorched-earth military campaign aimed at destroying the will of the southern people.

How did President Lincoln attempt to stifle opposition to the Civil War?

He suppressed free speech.

Which economic effect did the Civil War have on the rural North?

High prices and increased production brought it prosperity.

Why did the "twenty-Negro law" enrage many white Southerners during the Civil War?

It exempted from military service one white man on every plantation with twenty or more slaves.

Which statement describes the purpose of the second Confiscation Act, passed by Congress on July 17, 1862?

It freed the slaves of rebel masters.

Which disadvantage did the South face when supplying the Confederate armies?

It lacked the resources available to the North.

Which statement describes the significance of the conflict between the Virginia and the Monitor?

It marked the birth of the ironclad warship.

Which statement describes the purpose of the 1862 Homestead Act?

It offered Western land to settlers who would live and labor on it.

Which state was Lincoln most concerned about losing to the Confederates?

Kentucky

Which peace terms did Grant offer Lee at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865?

Lee's men could keep their horses.

Why did President Lincoln criticize General George B. McClellan early in the war?

McClellan had amassed a huge military force but refused to attack.

Lincoln justified the Emancipation Proclamation as

Military necessity

Which statement describes the fighting between Generals Grant and Lee in Virginia in May and June of 1864?

More Union soldiers died, but because Grant had twice as many troops as Lee, his losses were equivalent.

Why did Southerners believe they had a real chance of winning the Civil War?

Southern men believed they were physically tougher than northern men.

Why did the South experience greater inflation than the North during the Civil War?

The Confederacy printed more money.

Which problem did President Lincoln face during the election of 1864?

The Democrats had an excellent chance of winning.

Which statement describes African Americans' experiences in the Union army?

The Union placed blacks in segregated units.

Which statement describes the significance of the Battle of Shiloh?

The Union victory ruined the Confederacy's chances to take control of the West.

Which statement describes the significance of the first battle at Manassas (or Bull Run) in July 1861?

The Union's defeat encouraged Lincoln to authorize the enlistment of one million more men for three years.

How did slaves use the chaos and turmoil of the Civil War to whittle away at their bondage?

They forced concessions from their masters and mistresses.

Which statement describes the result of strikes by workers in northern industries during the Civil War?

They rarely succeeded.

Lincoln considered the biggest obstacle to the acceptance of emancipation in the Union to be

White fears that freed slaves would disrupt Northern society

How many of the fifteen slave states joined the Confederacy?

eleven

Despite their ideological commitment to states' rights and limited government, Confederate leaders

expanded their power by drafting soldiers into the Confederate army.

The easiest part of building an army and a navy for the Confederacy was

finding eager soldiers.

In March 1862, Congress tilted toward emancipating slaves when it

forbade the practice of returning fugitive slaves to their masters.

At the end of 1862, the eastern theater of the Civil War

had reached a stalemate.

When the Civil War ended, President Lincoln was confident that

his postwar burdens would weigh almost as heavily as those of wartime.

After his victory at Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1864, General Ulysses S. Grant

launched a massive military campaign that would take his troops on a sweep through Virginia down to Louisiana.

Republicans generated the economic power needed to fight a successful war in the early 1860s by

revolutionizing U.S. banking, monetary, and tax structures.

In his inaugural address, President Lincoln revealed that he hoped to avoid disunion by

taking measures to stop the spread of secession.

Aside from leading to the legal destruction of slavery, the Civil War itself helped destroy slavery in practice because

the discipline necessary to keep slavery intact was disrupted.

Which statement describes the result of the Battle of Vicksburg in July 1863?

The Union army's victory opened up a large portion of the Mississippi River.

Which of these prompted an Irish-led riot that took the lives of at least 105 people in New York City in the summer of 1863?

The newly enacted draft law

Which statement describes the perspective of southern clergymen on the Civil War?

They believed God had blessed slavery and the new nation.

Who led the Union forces to victory at the Battle of Shiloh?

Ulysses S. Grant

Under General Ulysses S. Grant's leadership, the Union armies

became a sophisticated war machine.

Most Northerners viewed secession as

an attack on the rule of law.

When he assumed the role of president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln was faced with the crisis of

disunion