Studied by 8 peopleThe example of German immigrant Marcus Spiegel demonstrated that:
the views of average Americans evolved considerably during the course of the Civil War.
Among the Confederacy's advantages during the Civil War was:
its large size, which made it more difficult for the Union to conquer.
Monitor and Merrimac were:
ironclad ships.
All of the following are examples of technological changes that helped to make the Civil War a modern war EXCEPT for the:
feild telephone.
Approximately how many Union and Confederate soldiers died during the Civil War?
750,000
At the first Battle of Bull Run:
spectators from the city came with picnic baskets to watch.
Which of the following puts these Civil war battles in the proper chronological order, from first to last?
First Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor
Who was offered a command in the Union army, but declined because of his devotion to his native state?
Robert E. Lee
The major Confederate army in the East, commanded by Robert E. Lee, was called the Army of:
Norther Virginia
At Antietam:
the nation suffered more casualties that on any other day in its history.
During the first two years of the war, Union forces were generally:
more successful in the West than in the East.
General George McClellan did all of the following EXCEPT:
win major victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in Tennessee.
When did Great Britain abolish slavery in its empire?
1830s
The last nation in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery was:
Brazil.
In what year did slavery officially end in the Western Hemisphere?
1888
During the early days of the war, the U.S. Congress adapter a resolution proposed by Senator John Crittenden of Kentucky that:
affirmed that the Union had no intention of interfering with slavery.
Lincoln was hesitant to support abolition early in the war because he:
feared losing the support of the slaveholding border states within the Union.
During the Civil War, the term "contraband camps" referred to:
camps of southern slaves who had escaped from their masters and entered Union lines.
Which Union general in Missouri decreed freedom to that state's slaves in 1861, a year before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
John Fremont
Which of the following is NOT true of Abraham Lincoln's slavery policy during the first two years of the war?
He proposed a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery immediately.
Lincoln's issuance of an emancipation proclamation:
followed the narrow Union victory in the Battle of Antietam.
The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863:
did not apply to the border slave states that had not seceded.
The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment is best known as:
a regiment of free blacks who charged Fort Wagner, South Carolina.
During the Civil War, black soldiers:
helped inspire Republicans to believe that emancipation also demanded equal rights before the law.
Beginning in 1863, what did Frederick Douglass urge norther blacks to do?
enlist in the Union army
Lincoln's vision during the Civil War:
was that the American nation embodied a set of universal ideals rooted in political democracy and human freedom.
Lincoln spoke of "a new birth of freedom" for the nation in his:
Gettysburg Address.
During the Civil War, northern Protestant ministers:
helped create a civic religion combining Christianity and patriotism.
With regard to civil liberties during the Civil war, President Lincoln:
suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
In the Ex parte Milligan case, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that:
accused persons must be tried before civil courts where there were open rather than military tribunals.
Clement Vallandigham was:
a northern politician banished to the Confederacy.
Economically, the Civil War led to:
the emergence of a nation-state committed to national economic development.
Colonel John Chivington is remembered for:
leading an attack that killed perhaps 400 Indian men, women, and children.
Captains of industry like steel magnate Andrew Carnegie and oil man John D. Rockefeller:
began creating or consolidating their fortunes during the Civil War.
Which of the following is true of the Confederacy and Native Americans?
Slaveowning Indians generally supported the Confederacy.
"Greenback" was a Civil War-era nickname for:
paper money
The U.S. Sanitary Commission:
coordinated war donations on the northern home front.
During the Civil War, northern white women:
began obtaining jobs as government clerks.
Who lobbied for the United States to endorse he First Geneva Convention of 1864?
Clara Barton
Copperheads were:
what Republicans called northern opponents of the war.
Which of the following is NOT true of the New York City riots of 1863?
They convinced Lincoln to delay issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
Which of the following is true of Jefferson Davis and his governing?
His administration actually suffered from the Confederacy's lack of political parties.
"King Cotton diplomacy" led Great Britain to:
find new supplies of cotton outside the South.
Which of the following did NOT cause divisions within the Confederacy?
the heavy taxes on planters, who resented paying the majority of the war's costs.
Rose Greenhow:
was a Confederate spy in Washington, D.C.
Which statement about the Confederacy is FALSE?
From the beginning of the war it recruited and deployed thousands of black soldiers.
In July 1863, the Union won two key victories that are often identified as turning points in the war. These victories occurred at:
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and Vicksburg, Mississippi.
The Union's manpower advantage over the Confederacy:
proved essential for the success of Grant's attrition strategy.
In the May and June 1864 battles in Virginia (between the armies of Grant and Lee):
the Union army, despite high casualties, pressed forward in its campaign.
Which September 1864 event helped Lincoln win reelection as president that November?
Sherman's capture of Atlanta
The "Sea Island Experiment" refers to:
northern reformers' efforts to assist former slaves with the transition to freedom.
Rehearsals for reconstruction during the Civil war demonstrated that:
the main aspirations of former slaves was the ownership of their own land.
The Wade-Davis Bill in 1864:
showed Radical Republicans' frustration with Lincoln's Reconstruction plan.
General Sherman marched from Atlanta to the sea in order to:
demoralize the South's civilian population.
The Thirteenth Amendment:
abolished slavery throughout the United States.
Lincoln's second inaugural address:
described the Civil War as divine punishment.
A major part of the Anaconda Plan was:
a naval blockade of the South.
In his last speech, Lincoln said what regarding postwar policy?
There should be at least limited black suffrage.
How was Ulysses Grant received in Europe during his tour in the 1870s?
He was praised as a "Hero of Freedom."
Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Civil War?
It greatly expanded the powers of the presidency and reduced the influence of Congress.
Fredrick Douglass viewed the abolition of slavery as:
not the end of a nation's work, but the beginning of a new phase of it.
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