APUSH Chapter 21 review

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During the Civil War, Grant lost one man for every ____, and Lee lost one man for every ____.

10, 5

Arrange the following in chronological order: (A) the Battle of Bull Run, (B) the Battle of Gettysburg, (C) Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and (D) the Battle of Antietam.

A, D, B, C

In the 1864 election, Abraham Lincoln's running mate was

Andrew Johnson.

The Union army's success in the capture of ____ was probably critical to Lincoln's reelection in 1864.

Atlanta and Mobile

The two major battles of the Civil War fought on Union soil were

Bull Run and Vicksburg.

When it was issued in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation declared free only those slaves in

Confederate states still in rebellion against the United States.

Clement L. Vallandigham, a Southern sympathizer and vocal opponent of the war, was derisively labeled a

Copperhead.

A victory at Antietam probably would have won Confederate independence becauseA victory at Antietam probably would have won Confederate independence because

France and Britain were on the verge of recognizing the Confederate government.

In the l864 election, the Democratic party nominated ____ to oppose Lincoln's reelection.

George McClellan

As a result of the Union loss in the Peninsula Campaign

Lincoln began to draft the Emancipation Proclamation.

The group in the North most dangerous to the Union cause was the

Northern Peace Democrats.

Slavery was legally abolished in the United States by the

Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

In the election of 1864, the Republicans joined with the prowar Democrats and founded the ____ party

Union

The Battle of Gettysburg was significant because

Union victory meant that the Southern cause was doomed

The Confederacy enlisted slaves into their army

a month before the war ended.

As a theorist of warfare, General William T. Sherman was

a pioneer of the strategy of total warfare aimed at destroying civilian morale.

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.

During the Civil War

blacks were enlisted by the Union army only after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.

Robert E. Lee decided to invade the North through Pennsylvania in order to

deliver a decisive blow that would strengthen the Northern peace movement.

The Confederate blockade runner, the Merrimack, was

destroyed by Confederate soldiers to keep it out of the hands of Union troops.

All of the following occurred as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation except

growing upper-class European support for the Union.

In invading Maryland, one of Lee's key objectives was to

inspire the Border States to rise up and join the Confederacy.

After defeating McClellan at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Robert E. Lee decided to

invade the Union via Maryland.

The North's victory at Antietam allowed President Lincoln to

issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

The Union victory at Vicksburg was of major importance for all of the following reasons except

it was the last major battle of the Civil War.

Lincoln hoped that a Union victory at Bull Run would

lead to the capture of the Confederate capital at Richmond.

Southern slaves ran away to Union camps at the rate of

one in seven.

George B. McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac, is best described as

overly cautious.

Slaves hindered the Confederacy's war efforts in all of the following ways except

poisoning military food supplies

The Battle of Antietam was particularly critical because it

probably prevented intervention by Britain and France on behalf of the Confederacy.

At the beginning of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln favored

quick military action to show the folly of secession.

The South's victory at Bull Run in 1861

reduced enlistments in the South's army.

After assuming command of the Army of the Potomac, General George McClellan made the mistake of

relying on Lincoln's military judgment.

African Americans who fought for the Union Army in the Civil War

served bravely and suffered extremely heavy casualties.

Northern soldiers became increasingly convinced of slavery's evils when

slaves ran away to Union camps and persevered against all odds.

The Emancipation Proclamation had the effect of

strengthening the moral cause and diplomatic position of the Union.

After the Peninsula Campaign, Union strategy included all of the following except

striking deep into the Confederacy via the Appalachian Mountain chain

The supreme test of American democracy in the nineteenth century was

the Civil War.

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.

Britain did not protest too loudly against the Union naval blockade of the Confederacy because

the blockade did not cut off cotton shipments.

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.

The Civil War resulted in all of the following except

the end of protective tariffs and isolationism.

The most serious Confederate threat to the Union blockade came from

the ironclad Merrimack (renamed the Virginia).

Scholars dispute whether the Civil War marked a watershed in American history for all of the following reasons except

the lives of black and white Americans were not transformed by the war experience.

Aside from ending slavery, blacks enlisted into the Union Army because they

wanted to prove their manhood and increase their claim to full citizenship.

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln

was a calamity for the South.

After halting Lee's troops at Antietam, General George McClellan

was removed from his field command.


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