Week 16 and 17 Reading Quiz

Women served which of the following roles during the Civil War? a. As government secretaries b. As President Lincoln's advisors c. As soldiers d. As spies

a. As government secretaries

What event marked the official beginning of armed hostilities between the North and South in April 1861? a. Confederates firing on Fort Sumter b. The assault on federal troops passing through Baltimore c. An assault on Washington, D.C. d. Confederates firing on the frigate Star of the West

a. Confederates firing on Fort Sumter

Why did King Cotton diplomacy fail? a. European nations turned to Egypt and India for cotton. b. Southern slaves refused to work during the war. c. The Union destroyed too many southern plantations. d. The Union refused to trade with Great Britain.

a. European nations turned to Egypt and India for cotton.

What was the significance of the conflict between the Virginia and the Monitor? a. It marked the birth of the ironclad warship. b. It ended the Union blockade. c. It showed the South's superior industrial resources. d. It almost prompted the British to enter the war.

a. It marked the birth of the ironclad warship.

What was the capital city of the Confederacy in 1863? a. Richmond, Virginia b. Charleston, South Carolina c. Montgomery, Alabama d. Atlanta, Georgia

a. Richmond, Virginia

Aside from leading to the legal destruction of slavery, the Civil War itself helped destroy slavery in practice because a. slave owners increasingly realized the advantages of free labor. b. the discipline necessary to keep slavery intact was disrupted. c. most male slaves joined the Union army. d. thousands of weary and disgusted slaveholders freed their slaves.

b. the discipline necessary to keep slavery intact was disrupted.

Why did southerners believe they had a real chance of winning the Civil War? a. Southern men believed they were physically tougher than northern men. b. The South had greater industrial might than the North. c. The South had a larger population of white men who could enlist in the military. d. The southern military planned to enlist the massive slave population into its ranks.

a. Southern men believed they were physically tougher than northern men.

What was the significance of the first battle at Manassas (or Bull Run) in July 1861? a. The Union's defeat encouraged Lincoln to authorize the enlistment of one million more men for three years. b. It was a bloodbath in which over ten thousand men died. c. Confederate soldiers questioned whether they had the mettle to compete with Union troops. d. It disheartened northerners to the extent that men stopped volunteering for the Union army.

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

What happened in the loyal border states of Missouri and Kentucky during the Civil War? a. Most soldiers refused to fight against the Confederates. b. A violent pro-southern minority remained sympathetic to the southern cause. c. State leaders emancipated their slaves. d. The citizens threatened to split off and create their own separate nation.

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

How did President Lincoln attempt to stifle opposition to the Civil War? a. He instituted martial law in all northern cities. b. He suppressed free speech. c. He imprisoned of a vast number of northern Democrats. d. He disfranchised political opponents.

b. He suppressed free speech.

How did slaves use the chaos and turmoil of the Civil War to whittle away at their bondage? a. They served in the Union army in exchange for their freedom. b. They forced concessions from their masters and mistresses. c. Most used violence against their masters when they had the chance. d. They banded together to sabotage the efforts of the Confederate army.

b. They forced concessions from their masters and mistresses.

What was the result of strikes by workers in northern industries during the Civil War? a. They undermined the patriotism of most workers. b. They rarely succeeded. c. They increased workers' wages. d. They were more effective for women than for men.

b. They rarely succeeded.

Lincoln justified the Emancipation Proclamation as a. a personal moral statement. b. a military necessity. c. a way to appease the entire northern population. d. a response to the lobbying of abolitionists

b. a military necessity.

After his victory at Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1864, General Ulysses S. Grant a. asked President Lincoln for a ninety-day furlough to recover from the exhaustion of the battle. b. launched a massive military campaign that would take his troops on a sweep through Virginia down to Louisiana.c. returned to the western theater of the war to conquer a new rebel threat that had sprung up there. d. resigned his commission, only to reenlist to fight at Spotsylvania Court House.

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

Republicans generated the economic power they needed to fight a successful war in the early 1860s by a. eliminating the federal income tax previously supported by Democrats. b. revolutionizing U.S. banking, monetary, and tax structures. c. negotiating to secure the complete cooperation of the Democrats. d. creating special government bonds that paid investors a high rate of interest.

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

What was General William T. Sherman's strategy for defeating the Confederates in Georgia in 1864? a. He intended to infect Confederate camps with typhoid fever. b. He planned to recruit former plantation slaves for the Union army. c. He orchestrated a scorched-earth military campaign aimed at destroying the will of the southern people. d. He planned to have his men confiscate Georgians' cotton and sell it to England.

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

What was the purpose of the 1862 Homestead Act? a. It instituted America's first public education system. b. It ended speculation on western land purchases. c. It offered Western land to settlers who would live and labor on it. d. It granted every former slave a homestead with forty acres and a mule.

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

Why did the South experience greater inflation than the North during the Civil War? a. The Confederacy issued war bonds. b. The South owed substantial debt to the North. c. The Confederacy printed more money. d. The South increased its taxes.

c. The Confederacy printed more money.

What was the significance of the Battle of Shiloh? a. The Confederate victory ensured that the Union would not take New Orleans. b. The Confederate victory gave the South control of the Mississippi River. c. The Union victory ruined the Confederacy's chances to take control of the West. d. The Union's easy victory convinced General Grant that victory was near.

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

What prompted an Irish-led riot that took the lives of at least 105 people in New York City in the summer of 1863? a. Dangerous working conditions b. The prejudices immigrant workers faced c. The newly enacted draft law d. Inadequate living conditions and high rents

c. The newly enacted draft law

Under General Ulysses S. Grant's leadership, the Union armies a. sustained few casualties. b. lost the majority of their battles. c. became a sophisticated war machine. d. focused primarily on the war in the West.

c. became a sophisticated war machine.

Why did President Lincoln choose not to make the Civil War a struggle over slavery? a. He believed slavery to be a relatively insignificant issue. b. He doubted that destroying slavery was the best thing for African Americans. c. He believed that eradicating slavery would destroy the economy of the South. d. He doubted his power to tamper with the "domestic institutions" of any state.

d. He doubted his power to tamper with the "domestic institutions" of any state.

What peace terms did Grant offer Lee at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865? a. Lee would be tried for treason in a military court. b. Grant required Confederate officers to serve prison time. c. Grant allowed Lee to keep his slaves. d. Lee's men could keep their horses.

d. Lee's men could keep their horses.

What irony emerges when considering the wartime leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis? a. Neither man was committed to the efforts he embarked on. b. While Lincoln was confident, Davis privately believed that the South never had a chance. c. Davis and Lincoln agreed more than they disagreed on political policy. d. The inexperienced Lincoln proved to be a more adept leader than the seasoned Davis.

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

What did southern clergymen think about the Civil War? a. They supported the war effort but opposed slavery. b. They argued the time had come for the South to free its slaves. c. They believed the war was punishment for southern greed. d. They believed God had blessed slavery and the new nation.

d. They believed God had blessed slavery and the new nation.