APUSH ch. 21 (A)
Slavery was legally abolished in the United States by the:
13th Amendment.
In the 1864 election, Abraham Lincoln's running mate was:
Andrew Johnson.
Britain did not protest too loudly agains the Union naval blockade of the Confederacy because:
Britain might want to use a similar blockade in a future war.
In the 1864 election, the Democratic Party nominated _______ to oppose Lincoln's reelection.
George McClellan.
The two major battles of the Civil War fougt on Union soil were:
Gettysburg and Antietam.
As a reult of the Union loss in the Peninsula Campaign:
Lincoln began to draft the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Unions army's victory in the caputre of Atlanta was probably critical to:
Lincoln's reelection in 1864.
Lincoln's victory in the election of 1864 was aided by:
Union military victories and backing from Union soldiers.
In the election of 1864, the Republicans joined with the prowar Democrats and founded the:
Union party.
The Battle of Gettysburg was significant because:
Union victory meant that te Southern cause was doomed.
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was:
a calamity for the South.
The final Union was strategy included all the following components:
a naval blockade; undermining the Confederate economy; seizing control of the Mississippi River; and capturing Richmond.
One consequence of General William T. Sherman's style of warfare was:
a shorter war that saved lives.
General Ulysses S. Grant's basic strategy in the Civil WAr involved:
assailing the enemy's armies simultaneously and directly.
Among the casualties of the Civil War were:
black slavery: extreme states' rights; and over a million men dead or wounded.
George Be. McClellan is best described as:
cautious.
After assuming comand of the Army of the Potomac, General George McClellan made the mistake of:
consistently believing that the enemy outnumbered him.
AFter the Peninsula Campaign, Union strategy included all of the following:
cutting the Confederacy in half; marching through Georgia and then the Carolinas; blockading the Confederacy's coastline; and liberating the slaves.
Robert E. Lee decided to invade the North through Pennsylvania in order to:
deliver a decisive blow that would strengthen the Northern peace movement.
Clement L. Vallandigham, a Southern sympathizer and vocal opponent of the war was:
derisively labeled a Copperhead.
The Confederate blockade runner, the Merrimack was:
destroyed by Confederate soldiers.
The Civil WAr resulted in the following:
expanded federal powers of taxation; the end of nullification and secession; the creation of the first federal social welfare agency; and the end of slavery.
The Battle of Antietam was particularly critical becaus it probably prevented:
intervention by Britain and France on behalf of the Confederacy.
The North's victory at Antietam allowed President Lincoln to:
issure the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Union victory at Vicksburg was of major importance because:
it reopened the Mississippi River to Northern trade; coupled with the victory at Gettysburg; foreign help for the confederacy was irretrievably lost; it helped to quell Northern peace agitation; and it cut off the supply of cattle and other goods from Texas and Louisiana.
Lincoln hoped that a Union victory at Bull Run would:
lead to the capture of the Confederate capital at Richmond.
The Emancipation proclamation had the effect of strengthening the ____ and ____ of the Union.
moral cause; diplomatic position.
All of the following occurred as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation:
mounting opposition in the North to an abolition war; sharp increases in Union desertions; heavy congressional defeats for Lincoln's administration; and complaints from abolitionists that it did not go far enough.
When it was issued in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation declared free:
only those slaves in states still in rebellion against the United States.
The South's victory at Bull Run in 1861:
reduced enlistments in the south's army.
After halting Lee's troops at Antietam, General George McClellan was:
removed from his field command.
African-Americans who fought for the Union ARmy in the Civil War:
served bravely and suffered extremely heavy causalties.
The group in the North most dangerous to the Union cause was:
the Northern Peace Democrats.
As a result of the Confederate victory in the Peninsula Campaign:
the Union turned to a strategy of total war.
One of the key developments enabling the Union to stop the Confederate thrust into the North at Antietam was:
the Union's discovery of Robert E. Lee's battle plans.
The Union's defeat in battle at Bull Run in 1861 was better than a victory because:
the defeat caused Northerners to face up to the reality of a long, difficult war.
At the beginning fo the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln favored quick military action to show:
the folly of secession.
The most alarming Confederate threat to the Union blockade came from:
the ironclad Merrimack.
In the Civil War, the South__ the Battle of Bull Run.
won
The Confederacy enlisted slaves into their army:
a month before the war ended.
The supreme test of American democracy in the 19th century was:
the Civil War.
During the Civil War blacks were enlisted by the Union army only after:
the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.
