Chapter 15

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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 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 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

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.

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.

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.

Most Northerners viewed secession as

an attack on the rule of law.