history 2610 chapter 14

Which of the following groups was not a major target of the New York City draft riots?

Irish immigrants

In 1860, Union forces destroyed the orchards and sheep of this tribe and forced 8,000 of their people to move to a new reservation, which is called

Navajo's Long Walk.

In an effort to expand the Confederacy into western areas, Confederate units from Texas in

New Mexico

Most of the Union's victories in the first two years of the war occurred in the West, especially at

Shiloh and New Orleans.

As Lincoln withdrew forces in the West to protect areas in the East, tensions flared between the Indians and settlers, leading to

Sioux Indians killing hundreds of white farmers.

During the first two years of the Civil War, most of the fighting took place in

Virginia and Maryland

A Sanitary Fair is

a grand bazaar that raised money for the care of Union soldiers.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in December 1865

abolished slavery throughout the Union

During the Civil War, the term "contraband camps" was used to refer to

camps of fugitive slaves.

By 1862, how many states composed the Confederate States of America?

eleven

What did Frederick Douglass encourage African-Americans in the North to do as part of the war effort after 1863?

enlist in the United States Army

Abraham Lincoln was a firm supporter of votes for black Americans prior to the Civil War.

false

Because of the harsh cruelties she witnessed during the war, Mary Livermore believed the extension of suffrage to anyone other than white men was to blame. For the rest of her life, she opposed all forms of political enfranchisement, including woman suffrage.

false

Compared to Lincoln, Jefferson Davis was much more politically flexible and had acquired a common touch among the people.

false

During the Civil War, the North instituted a draft, but the South never did.

false

During the course of the Civil War, more men died in battle than by wounds, infections, or disease.

false

General George B. McClellan was notorious for his military recklessness.

false

General Grant surrendered the Civil War to General Lee at the Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia.

false

The Civil War is sometimes called "the first modern war" because it used weapons and other technological advances of the industrial revolution. Which of the following was not one of these advances?

radios

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

second Confiscation Act; Siege of Vicksburg; congressional passage of Thirteenth Amendment

Abraham Lincoln's January 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation freed

some slaves, but exempted those in areas under Union control.

What military action started the American Civil War?

the Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter

Many late-nineteenth-century "captains of industry" made their initial fortunes during the Civil War.

true

Rose Greenhow

was a Confederate spy in Washington, D.C.

Population in the North was 22 million in 1860, while the white population of the South in 1860 was

5.5 million

Northern Republicans labeled those opposed to the war

Copperheads

General William T. Sherman moved his forces from Tennessee into this state, seizing the main railroad center in 1864.

Georgia

George E. Pickett's crack division marched across an open field toward Union forces into withering gunfire in July 1863 at

Gettysburg

In what 1863 speech did Lincoln assert that the sacrifices of the Union soldiers would ensure that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth"?

Gettysburg Address

Which of the following is a true statement about Ulysses S. Grant before the Civil War?

He resigned from the army in part because of allegations of excessive drinking.

Which of the following was a Confederate advantage in fighting the Civil War?

The leading southern commander, General Robert E. Lee, was a brilliant battlefield tactician and served as head of the Confederate army throughout the entire war.

A major hindrance during the outbreak of war included this railroad situation.

There was no national railroad gauge so trains built for one line could not run on another.

Which of the following describes the Battle of Antietam?

This was the bloodiest battle of the war.

George E. Pickett's division marched across an open field toward Union forces in July 1863 at Chancellorsville.

false

Government involvement in the economy was diminished as a consequence of the Civil War.

false

Invoking the extraordinary dangers of the moment, Lincoln called for a suspension of regular elections for the duration of the war.

false

Lincoln waited until after the Union victory at Gettysburg to deliver the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863.

false

Over the course of the war, the Union troops had stronger morale, but the Confederate troops were better supplied.

false

Religion was not an integral part of the Civil War outside of local personal beliefs and practices.

false

The Emancipation Proclamation immediately freed all enslaved persons in the United States.

false

The Sea Islands experiment was an experiment in the Sea Islands of South Carolina in which a large breakwater was constructed to stop massive flooding during hurricanes.

false

Spiritualism, in the sense that Mary Todd Lincoln and others perceived it

grew in popularity with such devices as séances.

The Second Confiscation Act

liberated slaves of disloyal owners in Union-occupied territory, as well as slaves who escaped to Union lines.

At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862,

northern forces suffered one of their worst defeats of the war.

Of the more than 180,000 black men who served in the Union army during the Civil War, how many died of disease, of wounds, or in battle?

one-third

At Vicksburg in July 1863,

the Union, under Ulysses S. Grant's leadership, was victorious.

Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation immediately following

the battle of Antietam.

Which of the following was the Gettysburg Address specifically designed to communicate?

the need for national reunion

The Homestead Act

took effect on January 1, 1863, and offered 160 acres of free public land to settlers in the West.

As the Civil War progressed, millions of northerners who had not been abolitionists became convinced that preserving the Union as an embodiment of liberty required the destruction of slavery.

true

Before going off to war, many Civil War soldiers sat for photographs, which were reproduced on small cards and distributed to friends and loved ones.

true

Black soldiers played a crucial role in winning the Civil War and in defining the war's consequences.

true

By making the Union army an agent of emancipation and joining together the goals of Union and abolition, the Emancipation Proclamation sounded the eventual death knell of slavery.

true

Clara Barton never received compensation from the government for her work as a nurse in the Civil War.

true

During the Civil War, Congress granted up to 100 million acres to the railroads.

true

During the Civil War, the Confederate Congress authorized military officers to seize farm goods to supply the army, paying with increasingly worthless Confederate money.

true

During the Civil War, the state of Georgia passed a law allowing the death sentence to southerners who were loyal to the Union cause.

true

General Grant decided to establish a "negro paradise" in Mississippi where emancipated slaves divided land among themselves and established a system of government, including electing their own judges and sheriffs.

true

In March 1865, the month before the Civil War ended, the Confederate Congress authorized the arming of slaves to fight for the South.

true

Later in life, Ulysses Grant traveled on a two-year world tour with his wife, and was generally greeted as a modern-day hero.

true

Lincoln was initially not concerned with the issue of slavery as his paramount concerns were to keep the border slave states in the Union and to build the broadest base of support in the North for the war effort.

true

More Americans died in the Civil War than in any other war in U.S. history.

true

Not since the American Civil War had mass armies confronted each other on the battlefield with the deadly weapons created by the industrial revolution.

true

Photographs of battlefields, soldiers, war dead, war encampments, and so forth carried the war into millions of Americans' living rooms.

true

Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg marked "the high tide of the Confederacy".

true

The United States Army earnestly pursued the enlistment of black soldiers following the Emancipation Proclamation.

true

The Wade-Davis Bill, introduced in Congress in the summer of 1864, required a majority of white male southerners to pledge support for the Union before Reconstruction could begin, and guaranteed blacks equality before the law, but not the vote.

true

The transformation of American government and society brought about by the Civil War was also called the Second American Revolution.

true