His 201 Chapter 15 Review Quiz
(Q006) The turning point of the Civil War was the battle of
Antietam
(Q012) Lee's last significant victory came at
Chancellorsville
(Q018) Union forces won both battles of Bull Run
False
(Q019) The Confederacy's "anaconda" plan called for dividing the Union at the Ohio River
False
(Q020) Slaves typically continued to dutifully serve their masters throughout the war, even when opportunities to escape to the Union army presented themselves
False
(Q021) Fighting during the Civil War never reached Kansas or the Indian Territory
False
(Q022) At the end of 1862 after the battle of Fredericksburg, the North held a clear military advantage
False
(Q028) Radical Republicans wanted to stop the war and let the South secede
False
(Q029) Copperheads were southerners who sympathized with the North
False
(Q011) In the election of 1864, Lincoln defeated
George B. McClellan
(Q016) At its beginning, most Americans in both the North and the South believed the Civil War would be over quickly
True
(Q009) In 1862, Congress adopted a protective tariff, approved the Pacific Railway Act, and passed the Homestead Act as a result of
a decisive shift in congressional power to northern influences
(Q008) Prior to the Emancipation Proclamation, how were escaped slaves regarded by the Union Army?
as contraband
(Q010) Which of the following statements accurately describes the practice of using the draft to raise an army during the Civil War?
it included controversial loopholes in both the North and South
(Q004) Jefferson Davis hoped to win the war by
pushing the Union to negotiate a settlement
(Q001) Abraham Lincoln stated that his "paramount object" was to
save the Union
(Q002) One important advantage the South had over the North was that it
was fighting on its own territory
(Q007) Which of the following statements accurately describes that Emancipation Proclamation?
It freed slaves only in the states controlled by the Confederacy
(Q015) In the course of the Civil War, which of the following occurred?
More soldiers died of disease than in battle
(Q005) Which of the following occurred during the Peninsula Campaign of 1832?
Robert E. Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia
(Q017) Only some of the slave states joined the Confederacy
True
(Q023) Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation as a military necessity
True
(Q024) The Thirteenth Amendment freed all slaves in the United States
True
(Q025) Clara Barton was a nurse who oversaw the distribution of medicines to Union troops and founded the Red Cross
True
(Q027) Civilians gathered to watch the first battle between the Confederate and Union soldiers
True
(Q02g) Following the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans were recruited to fight in the Union army
True
(Q030) The Confederacy's final defeat occurred at Appomattox.
True
(Q013) The tree great Union victories of 1863 that seemed to turn the tide of the war were at
Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and Chattanooga
(Q014) The destructive march across Georgia was led by
William Tecumseh Sherman
(Q003) How many states seceded from the Union during the Civil War?
eleven
