Deck 19: Girding for War the North and the South

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of Abraham Lincoln.

Answer 1

President of the United States. His election was cited as the reason for the exit of South Carolina from the Union.

Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of "Johnny Reb".

Answer 2

The nickname for "average" Confederate soldiers.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of Clara Barton.

Answer 3

Nurse for the Union army who helped transform nursing into a respected profession and employment source for women.

Question 4

The Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles)

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of Maximilian.

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of Charles Francis Adams.

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of Napoleon III.

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of "Billy Yank".

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of Fort Sumter.

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the Ohio River.

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of martial law.

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of William H. Seward.

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of The Seceding States of the Confederacy.

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of Sally Tompkins.

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of Jefferson Davis.

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of "Save the Union".

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of West Virginia.

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of Elizabeth Blackwell.

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of Butternut Region.

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of Border States.

Question 21

In 1861, many Northerners were willing to allow Southern states to leave the Union until

A) John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.
B) the South attacked Fort Sumter.
C) Robert E. Lee was named to head the potential new nation's army.
D) South Carolina seceded from the United States.
E) Virginia and Tennessee joined the seceding states.

Question 22

The Border States offered all of the following strategic advantages EXCEPT

A) a large population.
B) a good supply of horses and mules.
C) valuable manufacturing capacity.
D) shipbuilding facilities.
E) large navigable rivers.

Question 23

Lincoln's declaration that the North sought to preserve the Union with or without slavery

A) came as a disappointment to most Northerners and demoralized the Union.
B) revealed the influence of the Border States on his policies.
C) caused some seceded states to rejoin the Union.
D) contradicted the campaign promises of the Republican party.
E) cost him support in the Butternut region of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

Question 24

In order to persuade the Border States to remain in the Union, President Lincoln

A) relied solely on moral appeal.
B) used only totally legal methods.
C) guaranteed that they could keep slavery permanently.
D) never had to use troops.
E) used legally dubious methods including the declaration of martial law in Maryland and the deployment of Union soldiers in a local civil war in Missouri.

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the Dominion of Canada.

Question 26

The European great powers welcomed a civil war in the United States for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

A) war would weaken the power of the United States in the Western hemisphere.
B) a divided America would likely put a halt to European immigration.
C) they could play the two nations off against one another in a game of balance of power.
D) their existing colonies would be safe against further American expansion.
E) they might more readily seize new colonial territory in the Americas.

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the Morrill Tariff Act.

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of King Cotton.

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of writ of habeas corpus.

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of greenbacks.

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the U.S. Sanitary Commission.

Question 32

Lincoln declared from the outset of the Civil War that

A) he was not fighting to free black slaves.
B) he wanted to see an end to slavery.
C) slaves in all the Confederate states were now legally emancipated.
D) he believed blacks and whites were equal.
E) None of these choices are correct.

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the Trent affair.

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the New York draft riots.

Question 35

Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter when it was learned that

A) Lincoln had ordered the fort reinforced with federal troops.
B) Lincoln had ordered supplies sent to the fort.
C) the fort's commander was planning to evacuate his troops secretly from the fort.
D) Lincoln had called for 75,000 militia troops to form a voluntary Union army.
E) Southern support for secession was weakening.

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the National Banking System.

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of Laird rams.

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the Alabama.

Question 39

President Lincoln's decision on what to do about the situation at Fort Sumter in the first weeks of his administration can best be characterized as

A) ill thought out.
B) rash and hotheaded.
C) the only possible option.
D) a strategic blunder.
E) a middle of the road solution.

Question 40

Homestead Act

Question 41

One reason that the British did NOT try to break the Union blockade of the South during the Civil War was that

A) they feared losing Northern grain shipments.
B) they did not want to fight against the superior American navy.
C) the British upper class had supported the North from the onset of hostilities.
D) the war caused no economic problems for Britain.
E) the South resented British interference.

Question 42

A supposed asset for the South at the beginning of the Civil War that never materialized to its real advantage was

A) effective military leadership.
B) naval intervention from Britain and France.
C) the fighting skill of Southern males.
D) its ability to fight on its own soil.
E) its belief that it was defending its way of life.

Question 43

The greatest weakness of the South during the Civil War was its

A) inferior military leadership.
B) weak overall morale for the Confederacy among most Confederate soldiers.
C) slave population.
D) economy, particularly its limited manufacturing capacity and inferior railroad network.
E) inefficient political system.

Question 44

To find effective high-level commanders, the Union

A) took only top graduates of West Point.
B) drew on its reserve officer training program.
C) relied on the advice of foreign experts.
D) did not let politics enter the decision-making process.
E) used trial and error.

Question 45

During the Civil War, practicing effective diplomacy for the Union and the Confederacy in their respective relations with Great Britain

A) played only a small role in the evolution of the war efforts of the Union and the Confederacy.
B) was important for the Union but not for the Confederacy.
C) was critical for both the Union and the Confederacy
D) was important for the Confederacy but not for the Union.
E) was completely irrelevant to the outcome of the Civil War.

Question 46

All of the following were similar characteristics that both Union and Confederate soldiers shared EXCEPT

A) most soldiers had been farmers or farm laborers.
B) poor, immigrants from Europe were well represented in both armies.
C) most troops were native born.
D) almost half were under the age of 22.
E) both shared a common commitment to patriotism.

Question 47

Most working people in Britain sided with the North because

A) they relied on the Northern economy for their own jobs.
B) the North shared their feelings about whether Britain should enter the war.
C) they had developed a class consciousness and moral revulsion about the evils of slavery and hoped that the Civil War would eventually extinguish slavery in the South and the western territories.
D) they hoped to one day have the opportunity to relocate to and profit in the U.S.
E) France had sided with the South and they hated the French.

Question 48

Billy Yank tended to be all of the following EXCEPT

A) religious.
B) literate.
C) intellectual.
D) practical.
E) efficient.

Question 49

Confederate commerce-raiders such as the Alabama

A) were of little value.
B) proved effective against Union shipping.
C) were supplied by the French.
D) lasted less than a year.
E) operated mostly off the Atlantic coast.

Question 50

The South believed that the British would come to its aid because

A) the people in Britain would demand such action.
B) British Canada was strongly hostile to the Union.
C) Britain still had slavery in its empire.
D) the government had refused to allow Uncle Tom's Cabin to be sold in the empire.
E) Britain was dependent on Southern cotton.

Question 51

The Confederacy's most effective commerce-raider was the

A) Monitor.
B) Merrimack.
C) Trent.
D) Virginia.
E) Alabama.

Question 52

Northern soldiers eventually became known for their

A) discipline and determination.
B) cowardice in battle.
C) lack of proper training.
D) high-pitched battle yell.
E) love of military pomp and hierarchy.

Question 53

"Johnny Reb" tended to be all of the following EXCEPT

A) jocular.
B) emotional.
C) religious.
D) detached personally from the war.
E) bred to fight.

Question 54

During the Civil War, Britain and the United States were nearly provoked into war by

A) the incompetence of Charles Francis Adams, the United States ambassador to London.
B) Britain's refusal to observe the Union's blockade of Southern ports.
C) the Trent affair, involving the removal of Southern diplomats from a British ship by a Union warship in 1861.
D) Napoleon III's effort to place Maximilian on the Mexican throne.
E) British working-class support for the South.

Question 55

Much of the hunger experienced by Confederate soldiers in the Civil War was due to

A) poor agricultural production.
B) the Union's naval blockade.
C) the South's rickety transportation system.
D) the fact that slaves abandoned the plantations.
E) profiteering by military suppliers.

Question 56

To achieve its independence, the Confederacy had to

A) invade the Union.
B) win a decisive military victory on its own soil.
C) fight the invading Union army to a draw.
D) attract more talented military commanders.
E) capture Washington, D.C.

Question 57

The Cherokees' decision to side with the South during the Civil War was based on

A) the North's reservation policies.
B) the fact that the Cherokees also owned slaves and felt they were making common cause with the South.
C) disbelieving promises by the Lincoln administration to continue making payments to the tribe.
D) the invitation by Union leaders to send tribal delegates to Congress.
E) the offer of a large cash payment from the Confederacy in return for military support.

Question 58

Of all the hardships faced by the soldiers during the Civil War, the greatest was

A) starvation.
B) disease.
C) decline of moral standards.
D) lack of proper clothing.
E) constant fighting.

Question 59

After the conclusion of the Civil War, the U.S. government rewarded the Union support provided by most of the Plains Indians by

A) giving them federal land in California.
B) increasing their federal payments.
C) allowing them to elect representatives to Congress.
D) making them scouts for the U.S. Army.
E) waging war on most of the Plains Indians and coercively herding them onto reservations.

Question 60

During the Civil War, most of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory of present-day Oklahoma

A) supported the Confederacy.
B) supported the Union.
C) remained neutral.
D) gave up their slaves.
E) sought admission as a Confederate state.

Question 61

As a result of the Civil War, the Northern economy

A) became more dependent on international trade.
B) saw industrial profits improve but agricultural profits fall.
C) was notable for its honest and fair business practices.
D) experienced considerable unemployment despite military manpower demands.
E) greatly expanded its industrial and technological productivity.

Question 62

Northern advantages at the outset of the Civil War included

A) naval control of the seas.
B) more banks, factories, railroads, and people.
C) superior interior lines of military operation than the Confederacy.
D) the superior ability to wage offensive strategic warfare, which the Confederacy struggled to initiate.
E) All of these choices are correct.

Question 63

Border slave states that remained loyal to the Union included

A) Kentucky.
B) Missouri.
C) Tennessee.
D) Maryland.
E) West Virginia.

Question 64

Confederate commerce-raiders

A) operated near New York and Boston.
B) dealt a devastating blow to the Union's merchant marine.
C) severely crippled the Union war effort.
D) established an effective blockade of Union ports.
E) were almost all built in Britain.

Question 65

States that joined the Confederacy after the firing on Fort Sumter included

A) Virginia.
B) North Carolina.
C) Missouri.
D) Tennessee.
E) Arkansas.

Question 66

Napoleon III's attempt to install Maximilian on the Mexican throne was a clear violation of

A) French neutrality.
B) the Rush-Bagot agreement.
C) Spanish sovereignty.
D) the Monroe Doctrine.
E) Pan-American treaties.

Question 67

President Lincoln's suspension and disregard of several important civil liberties during the Civil War

A) was overridden by a protesting Congress.
B) included the suspension of habeas corpus.
C) led to the arrest of several critical newspaper editors.
D) was allowed by Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court to continue after the war.
E) was defended by him as necessary to save the Union.

Question 68

The Civil War was a women's war in all of the following ways EXCEPT

A) as men left for war, women gained new job opportunities in government.
B) military demand for shoes and clothing drew women into industrial employment.
C) women were encouraged to run for office to fill political posts abandoned by men.
D) women aided men on the battlefront as spies or by posing as male soldiers
E) women were able to professionalize nursing.

Question 69

All of the following are true statements about the federal conscription (draft) law EXCEPT

A) it allowed draftees to hire substitutes
B) its provisions were unfair to the poor.
C) it was passed despite a healthy rate of volunteers.
D) men could pay $300 to purchase an exemption.
E) it inspired resentment and riots.

Question 70

America's minister to Britain, during the Civil War, under President Lincoln was

A) Charles Francis Adams.
B) William H. Seward.
C) Jefferson Davis.
D) Edwin M. Stanton.
E) Clara Barton.

Question 71

The problems that President Abraham Lincoln experienced in conducting the Civil War were less harmful than those experienced by Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, partly because the Union

A) had a long-established and fully recognized government.
B) had strong political support from Britain and France.
C) held firm to states' rights principles.
D) was united in the cause of abolitionism.
E) had fewer internal political divisions.

Question 72

Like the North during the Civil War, the South

A) exempted the wealthy from military service.
B) experienced a high rate of desertion.
C) relied mainly on volunteer enlistments.
D) drafted men into military service.
E) used black soldiers.

Question 73

As president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis did NOT exercise the arbitrary power wielded by Abraham Lincoln because

A) of the South's emphasis on states' rights.
B) there was such strong agreement on policy in the South.
C) he did not believe in strong executive action.
D) Confederate General Robert E. Lee's insistence on keeping his army out of politics.
E) the Confederate Constitution gave him all the power he needed.

Question 74

The Southern cause was weakened by

A) the concept of states' rights that the Confederacy professed ran contrary to the vision of a tight, well-knit central government held by its president, Jefferson Davis.
B) a president, Jefferson Davis, who catered to public opinion and did not work hard at his job.
C) the failure of the Southern people to commit to the ideal of Southern independence.
D) a lack of sound military leadership.
E) the constant threat of slave rebellion.

Question 75

France abandoned its attempt to control Mexico

A) because the effort proved to be unprofitable.
B) when the British pressured them to leave.
C) when the American Civil War began.
D) because the Mexicans declared independence.
E) when the United States threatened to use military force after the conclusion of the Civil War to expel France from Mexico and overthrow the French puppet leader, Maximilian.

Question 76

In Lincoln's attempts to preserve the Union, he did all of the following questionable actions as president EXCEPT

A) proclaimed a blockade of the Southern ports.
B) increased the size of the federal army.
C) suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
D) advanced federal funds to private citizens without authorization.
E) refused to implement a draft, or conscription law, during the war.

Question 77

During the Civil War

A) relations between the Union and Canada were at times very poor.
B) Southerners were unable to use Canada as a base from which to attack the Union.
C) the Union and Canada became very close allies.
D) France made an effort to regain control of Canada.
E) the British army in Canada mobilized for intervention.

Question 78

Despite the war, 300,000 people migrated to the West, lured mainly by

A) the prospect of free land under the Homestead Act.
B) the ability to push Indians off their land without government interference.
C) the opportunity to flee from federal draft laws.
D) the hope of fleeing slavery.
E) None of these choices are correct.

Question 79

As leader of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis

A) enjoyed real personal popularity despite the South's loss.
B) was a poor administrator.
C) developed a good relationship with his congress.
D) effectively articulated southern ideals.
E) defied rather than followed southern public opinion and his congress on several key issues regarding conduct of the Civil War.

Question 80

King Cotton failed the South as a tool of wartime diplomacy because

A) Britain held surpluses of cotton when the war began.
B) textile workers in Britain favored the North.
C) the North sent captured cotton to Britain.
D) Britain developed alternative supplies of cotton in Egypt and India.
E) the cotton crop was devastated by the boll weevil.