Deck 14: The Civil War

Question 1

What do the Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg share in common?

A) Both were fought in the South.
B) Both were fought in the North.
C) Both were Confederate victories.
D) Both were Union victories.

Answer 1

Both were Union victories.

Question 2

In the first year of the Civil War,most of the fighting occurred in the __________.

A) Northeast
B) Southeast
C) Northwest
D) Southwest

Answer 2

Southeast

Question 3

The militia of which state bombarded Fort Sumter in April 1861?

A) West Virginia
B) Delaware
C) Maryland
D) South Carolina

Answer 3

South Carolina

Question 4

According to the introductory video in section 14.4,Abraham Lincoln drafted portions of the Emancipation Proclamation in the telegraph office of which department?

A) Commerce
B) Treasury
C) War
D) State

Question 5

According to the introductory video in section 14.5,which of the following was the farthest north that Confederate troops reached?

A) Vicksburg
B) Gettysburg
C) Antietam
D) Bull Run

Question 6

When Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to fight the South in April 1861,he hoped the conflict would be over within __________.

A) three months
B) one year
C) two years
D) three years

Question 7

The Emancipation Proclamation left slavery intact in which state?

A) Missouri
B) Georgia
C) Mississippi
D) Texas

Question 8

What do the attack on Fort Sumter and the First Battle of Bull Run share in common?

A) Both were fought in the Western frontier.
B) Both were fought in the Atlantic Ocean.
C) Both ended in a victory for the North.
D) Both ended in a victory for the South.

Question 9

Which of the following states seceded from the Union in 1861?

A) Missouri
B) Kentucky
C) Kansas
D) Louisiana

Question 10

Who was the president of the Confederacy?

A) Jefferson Davis
B) Robert E. Lee
C) George McClellan
D) Robert Anderson

Question 11

According to the introductory video in section 14.1,Sam Houston's battle wound from the War of 1812 symbolized his __________.

A) opposition to slavery
B) defense of slavery
C) allegiance to the Union
D) allegiance to Texas

Question 12

What did Abraham Lincoln cite in his arguments against Southern secession?

A) the Declaration of Independence
B) the Constitution
C) the Gettysburg Address
D) the Emancipation Proclamation

Question 13

Which of the following explains why Britain was reluctant to support the Confederacy?

A) Britain's support of the international slave trade
B) Britain's decline in the global textile industry
C) Britain's dependence on cotton from the South
D) Britain's commitment to the abolition of slavery

Question 14

According to the introductory video in section 14.2,Abraham Lincoln saw Southern secession as a threat to the vital interests of the United States after the secession of which state?

A) Louisiana
B) South Carolina
C) Florida
D) Georgia

Question 15

According to the introductory video in section 14.3,the Battle of __________ signaled the Confederacy's strategy to take the war to the North.

A) Fort Sumter
B) Antietam
C) Bull Run
D) Vicksburg

Question 16

Fighting at which of the following places started the Civil War?

A) Vicksburg
B) Bull Run
C) Antietam
D) Fort Sumter

Question 17

How many states had seceded by March 1861?

A) three
B) five
C) seven
D) nine

Question 18

Which of the following is associated with the doctrine of the states' right of nullification?

A) Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
B) Compromise of 1850
C) War of 1812
D) Texas war of independence

Question 19

According to the video in the introduction,Abraham Lincoln __________ the South's secession.

A) tolerated
B) encouraged
C) resisted
D) legalized

Question 20

Which state joined the Confederacy after Abraham Lincoln issued a call to arms?

A) Missouri
B) West Virginia
C) Tennessee
D) Maryland

Question 21

How many states joined the Confederate States of America?

A) four
B) seven
C) eleven
D) fifteen

Question 22

In what year did the first state secede from the Union?

A) 1859
B) 1860
C) 1861
D) 1862

Question 23

What did all the states that joined the Confederate States of America share in common?

A) They all practiced slavery.
B) They were all in the West.
C) They had all voted for Lincoln.
D) They had all boycotted the 1860 election.

Question 24

Which of the following expressed a "personal wish that all men every where could be free"?

A) Jefferson Davis
B) Robert E. Lee
C) Alexander Hamilton Stephens
D) Abraham Lincoln

Question 25

According to the How Do We Know? video in section 14.6,the opening line of the Gettysburg Address referred to the __________.

A) Compromise of 1850
B) Emancipation Proclamation
C) Preamble of the Constitution
D) Declaration of Independence

Question 26

According to the Past and Present video in section 14.6,people who argue that Confederate officers and soldiers should be reviled associate the Confederacy with __________.

A) abolitionism
B) slavery
C) suffrage
D) capitalism

Question 27

Robert E.Lee's surrender at __________ marked the end of the civil war.

A) Gettysburg
B) Vicksburg
C) Fort Sumter
D) Appomattox Court House

Question 28

What does the following statement,which Abraham Lincoln wrote in a letter in 1862,suggest about his top priority?: "What I do about slavery,and the colored race,I do because I believe it helps to save the Union."

A) punishing the states that seceded
B) extending voting rights to blacks
C) emancipating the slaves
D) preserving the Union

Question 29

According to the introductory video in section 14.6,why was the family of Ulysses S.Grant's wife able to keep their slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued?

A) It was an exchange for Grant's service.
B) The military was exempt from the law.
C) They lived in a border state.
D) Grant protected them from the law.

Question 30

Which of the following correctly matches the Union general with his military victory?

A) William T. Sherman-Mobile Bay
B) Phil Sheridan-Shenandoah Valley
C) David Farragut-Atlanta
D) George McClellan-Richmond

Question 31

Which of the following conclusions is supported by the information provided in the map?

A) All slave states joined the Confederacy.
B) Some slave states remained in the Union.
C) Some free states joined the Confederacy.
D) The first states to secede were all in the West.

Question 32

How did Abraham Lincoln respond to the bombardment of Fort Sumter shown in the image?

A) He issued a call to arms.
B) He emancipated the slaves.
C) He accepted Southern secession.
D) He ended the Civil War.

Question 33

According to the Arguing History video in section 14.6,why did the majority of soldiers join the Confederate Army?

A) to keep their slaves
B) to defend the South
C) to avoid state taxes
D) to preserve the Union

Question 34

In his editorial titled "The Prayer of Twenty Millions," what does Horace Greeley believe that Abraham Lincoln should do?

A) end the Civil War
B) emancipate the slaves
C) accept Southern secession
D) invade the Southern states

Question 35

In what respects was the conflict between the North and South from 1861 to 1865 a civil war? In what respects was it a rebellion? In what respects was it a war of independence?

Question 36

What did Abraham Lincoln promise in his First Inaugural Address?

A) to recognize the independence of the Confederacy
B) to introduce an amendment prohibiting secession
C) to leave slavery intact in the states where it existed
D) to abolish slavery in in the states where it existed

Question 37

This statement expresses the main idea in which of the following documents?: "...all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then,thenceforward,and forever free."

A) Gettysburg Address
B) Emancipation Proclamation
C) the "Cornerstone Speech"
D) the Declaration of Independence

Question 38

How did both the Southern states that seceded and Abraham Lincoln use the Constitution to make their respective arguments for and against secession?

Question 39

Who led the Union forces in the Battle of Vicksburg?

A) William T. Sherman
B) George Meade
C) Robert E. Lee
D) Ulysses S. Grant

Question 40

What contributed to the victory of the Union over the Confederacy in the Civil War?