Deck 15: Crucible of Freedom: Civil War

Question 1

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Peninsula Campaign

Answer 1

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Question 2

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Ex parte Merryman

Answer 2

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Question 3

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20-Negro law

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Question 4

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Bounty jumpers

Question 5

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Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Question 6

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Radical Republicans

Question 7

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Jefferson Davis

Question 8

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Jay Cooke

Question 9

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Alexander Stephens

Question 10

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First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas)

Question 11

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Robert E. Lee

Question 12

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National Bank Act

Question 13

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Maryland, writ of habeas corpus

Question 14

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Legal Tender Act, greenbacks

Question 15

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George B. McClellan

Question 16

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Ulysses S. Grant

Question 17

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Battle of Antietam

Question 18

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Abraham Lincoln

Question 19

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Conscription Act, Enrollment Act

Question 20

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Anaconda plan

Question 21

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The Florida , the Alabama , and the Laird rams

Question 22

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New York City Draft Riots

Question 23

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Fort Pillow massacre

Question 24

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Matthew Brady

Question 25

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Ex parte Milligan

Question 26

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Morrill Land Grant Act

Question 27

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Homestead Act

Question 28

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Battle of Shiloh

Question 29

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The Trent affair

Question 30

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Confiscation Acts

Question 31

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Emancipation Proclamation

Question 32

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Freedmen's Bureau

Question 33

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Cotton diplomacy

Question 34

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William T. Sherman

Question 35

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Battle of Gettysburg

Question 36

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Hardtack

Question 37

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Copperheads (Peace Democrats) and Clement Vallandigham

Question 38

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Virginia v. Monitor

Question 39

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Frederick Douglass

Question 40

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Battle of Vicksburg

Question 41

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Woman's National Loyal League

Question 42

How did the Confederacy provide for its ordnance needs during the Civil War?

A) It used munitions captured on the battlefield.
B) It created government-owned munitions factories.
C) It imported munitions from Europe.
D) It bought munitions from private firms.
E) All of these choices

Question 43

During the war, most slaves

A) remained on the plantations or farms with their owners.
B) were subjected to slave patrols throughout the South.
C) escaped to freedom.
D) fought in the Confederate Army.
E) aided the Union army as spies and soldiers.

Question 44

Of all the methods the northern and southern governments used to finance the war, which was the most effective in raising revenue?

A) Income taxes
B) Property taxes
C) Government war bonds
D) Printing paper money
E) Sales taxes

Question 45

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Sally Tompkins, Belle Boyd

Question 46

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Andersonville

Question 47

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Election of 1864

Question 48

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Appomattox Court House

Question 49

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Anna Dickinson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony

Question 50

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Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton

Question 51

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Sherman's March Through Georgia

Question 52

Which of the following was not one of the reasons why both the North and the South were unprepared for war?

A) No one in either section had expected hostilities.
B) Neither the North nor the South was in a position to levy taxes to finance the war.
C) Northerners were uncertain about Lincoln's ability to lead the nation.
D) The South had poor railroads and virtually no navy.
E) The Union had only a small army, and one third of its officers had joined the Confederacy.

Question 53

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Andrew Johnson

Question 54

Which of these states never left the Union?

A) Kentucky, Virginia, and Maryland
B) Kentucky, Missouri, and West Virginia
C) Maryland, Delaware and North Carolina
D) Delaware, Florida, and Virginia
E) West Virginia, North Carolina and Missouri

Question 55

Initially, what method did both the North and the South use to raise their armies?

A) National conscription
B) Calling up state militias
C) Local rallies to sign up volunteers
D) Raising the pay of officers
E) None of these choices

Question 56

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Thirteenth Amendment

Question 57

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United States Sanitary Commission

Question 58

What advantage did the South have over the North at the beginning of the Civil War?

A) The South had better military leaders.
B) The South had more railroads.
C) The South had a majority of the country's armaments factories.
D) The South possessed a larger population.
E) The South was politically united.

Question 59

Who was exempt from conscription during the Civil War?

A) Northerners who paid the government $300
B) All white southerners
C) Southerners who could not afford the $300 conscription fee
D) Southerners who sent their slaves to fight as substitutes
E) Northerners who objected to war on moral grounds

Question 60

Which of the following statements concerning conscription in the Civil War is true?

A) It was unnecessary during the Civil War.
B) It was already in place nationally when the Civil War began.
C) It was used by both sides from the beginning of the war.
D) It was possible in the Union but constitutionally prohibited in the Confederacy.
E) It was instituted first by the Confederacy.

Question 61

The Battle of Antietam in September 1862

A) was a strategic victory for the South because General Grant called off his invasion of Richmond.
B) encouraged Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
C) encouraged Great Britain and France to recognize the Confederacy as an independent nation.
D) was General Ambrose Burnside's most famous victory
E) revealed Robert E. Lee's genius in staging a battle.

Question 62

Which of the following statements concerning the Battle of Shiloh is not correct?

A) Confederate General Beauregard announced victory prematurely.
B) It was the costly battle in American history to that point in time.
C) Confederate forces withdrew after Union reinforcements arrived and launched a successful counterattack.
D) Grant and Sherman won a great victory with relatively few casualties.
E) Confederate armies staged a surprise attack on General Grant's army.

Question 63

What happened to consumer prices during the Civil War?

A) The North had an inflation rate of 80%, while the South had an inflation rate of 9,000%.
B) Prices remained relatively stable in both the North and the South because of government controls.
C) The South experienced a drastic downward spiral of deflation, while northern prices skyrocketed.
D) Both the northern and southern economies suffered from crippling declines in prices and wages.
E) Both the northern and southern economies boomed, as prices rose slowly and modestly.

Question 64

Which statement accurately describes why that state refused to join the Confederacy?

A) Delaware was mainly a nonslaveholding state that had no desire to be part of a slave Confederacy.
B) Missouri's citizens were united in their loyalty to the Union and in their belief that an independent slave confederacy could not survive.
C) Virginia's nonslaveholding eastern part of the state refused to secede with the western part ¾ which named itself West Virginia when it joined the Confederacy.
D) Maryland's popular politician, Hannibal Hamlin, had just been elected vice president.
E) Kentucky had a Unionist legislature whose resolve was strengthened by the presence of Grant's troops across the river in Illinois.

Question 65

The Civil War can be considered the first modern war for all of the following reasons except

A) There was an extensive reliance on the new communication technology of the telegraph.
B) There was large-scale use of trench warfare by armies on both sides.
C) The size of the armies on both sides was larger than ever.
D) Tactics changed dramatically.
E) Airplanes significantly altered the experience of combat.

Question 66

During the war, women in the North and South

A) took jobs in mills that were previously held by men.
B) served as nurses and Sanitary Commission workers.
C) gained jobs in federal offices.
D) All of these choices
E) None of these choices

Question 67

At the First Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas),

A) amateur armies on both sides fought a bloody battle with confederate forces ultimately prevailing.
B) the two sides fought to a stalemate and withdrew after three days of fighting.
C) President Lincoln personally led the Union army into battle.
D) Confederate forces defeated the Union army and advance unopposed to the outskirts of Washington, D.C.
E) the opposing forces engaged each other from long distances and caused few casualties.

Question 68

What did the National Bank Act of 1863 do?

A) It created a national bank in each Confederate state.
B) It established criteria by which a bank could get a federal charter and issue national bank notes.
C) It declared that it was a conflict of interest, and therefore illegal, for federally chartered banks to purchase federal war bonds.
D) It tied the value of Confederate currency to the price of cotton on the European market.
E) It took the Union off the gold standard.

Question 69

During the Civil War, women's rights activists

A) temporarily secured the vote for women, who would cast ballots for absent soldier-husbands.
B) suspended their movement for suffrage out of respect for the war.
C) hoped that their wartime service would be rewarded with greater equality, especially the right to vote.
D) fought for salaries and pensions for wartime nurses and other volunteers.
E) None of these choices

Question 70

Besides providing some soldiers, what was the primary benefit of Union and Confederate conscription laws?

A) They limited the number of men who could protest the harsh conditions caused by the war.
B) They provided a pool of workers who were not qualified to be soldiers.
C) They encouraged men to volunteer for military service.
D) They forced both sides to develop an accurate census.
E) They established the foundation for a larger military after the war.

Question 71

What advantage did the North have over the South at the beginning of the war?

A) A large federal reserve to tap into for war costs.
B) A stronger sense of mission in the desire to end slavery.
C) Massive industrial capacity and most of the nation's railroad track.
D) A large population of free blacks who enlisted to fight alongside whites.
E) A short distance within its defensive arc for moving troops and supplies.

Question 72

The Emancipation Proclamation

A) freed the slaves and abolished slavery in all the states of the Union and the Confederacy.
B) freed slaves only in areas under Confederate control but not in areas that remained loyal.
C) was formulated by the Radical Republicans and issued by Lincoln despite his strong personal objections.
D) convinced England and France to enter the war on behalf of the Union in order to win the crusade against slavery.
E) was issued twenty-four hours after General Lee surrendered.

Question 73

Why did Sherman burn much of Atlanta?

A) He didn't want the burden of feeding captives and garrisoning the city.
B) He wanted to send a message to Lee that he would similarly destroy the rest of the South.
C) He was a cruel and sadistic military leader.
D) He wanted to severely punish the South for the war.
E) None of these choices

Question 74

The development of the rifle was important because it

A) forced generals to rely less on cavalry.
B) permitted more effective use of the bayonet.
C) eliminated the value of trenches in defensive action.
D) meant that cavalry could be more lethal.
E) invalidated traditional military tactics.

Question 75

Originally developed by General Winfield Scott and later adopted by General Ulysses S. Grant, the Anaconda plan advocated

A) moving cautiously and only attacking when victory was certain.
B) constant pressure on Southern forces by controlling the Mississippi River and blockading the coast.
C) cutting supplies to the South and waiting until the Confederacy starved or surrendered.
D) concentrating Union forces and making an all-out assault on Richmond.
E) the use of spies to infiltrate and disrupt Southern agriculture.

Question 76

Approximately how many Americans died in the Civil War?

A) 125,000
B) 330,000
C) 620,000
D) 950,000
E) 1.2 million

Question 77

How did the clash between the Virginia and the Monitor in March 1862 revolutionize naval warfare?

A) It showed the value of wind-power over steam.
B) It revealed the value of armor-piercing shells.
C) It indicated the limitations ship-to-ship communications.
D) It marked the beginning of a shift toward ironclad ships and even submarines.
E) It signified the importance of rifling in barrels.

Question 78

Which of the following is not true regarding naval activity during the Civil War?

A) The Confederacy achieved its greatest successes in commerce raiding ¾ harassing and destroying Union merchant shipping.
B) The Union used its superior navy to prevent virtually all blockade runners from making it through.
C) The Union had overwhelming naval superiority throughout the entire war and bolstered its fleet with tugs, whalers, and ferries.
D) During the war, the world's first engagement between two ironclad warships took place.
E) The Confederacy tried to have some of its vessels built in Europe.

Question 79

Which of the following is not one of the reasons why the Confederacy expected assistance, or at least diplomatic recognition, from France or Great Britain?

A) The French and British upper classes were thought to be sympathetic to the South.
B) A permanent division of the United States would benefit European colonial designs in the Western Hemisphere.
C) Britain depended on the South for four-fifths of its cotton.
D) The British Prime Minister had secretly promised aid and recognition to Jefferson Davis in 1860.
E) There was considerable diplomatic friction between Great Britain and the Union.

Question 80

The South had an advantage over the North in terms of

A) population.
B) firearm production.
C) farm acreage.
D) corn production.
E) soldier morale.