Deck 15: Crucible of Freedom: Civil War, 1861-1865

Question 1

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. Conscription Act, Enrollment Act

Answer 1

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Question 2

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. Anaconda plan

Answer 2

Answer not provided.

Question 3

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. Peninsula Campaign

Answer 3

Answer not provided.

Question 4

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. Appomattox Court House

Question 5

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. Jefferson Davis

Question 6

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. Maryland, writ of habeas corpus

Question 7

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. Abraham Lincoln

Question 8

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. Legal Tender Act, greenbacks

Question 9

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. National Woman's Loyal League

Question 10

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. Alexander Stephens

Question 11

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. Ulysses S. Grant

Question 12

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. United States Sanitary Commission

Question 13

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. George B. McClellan

Question 14

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. Exparte Merryman

Question 15

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. Battle of Antietam

Question 16

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. Robert E. Lee

Question 17

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. First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas)

Question 18

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. Radical Republicans

Question 19

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. National Bank Act

Question 20

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. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Question 21

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. Battle of Shiloh

Question 22

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. Battle of Vicksburg

Question 23

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. Exparte Milligan

Question 24

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. Copperheads (Peace Democrats) and Clement Vallandigham

Question 25

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. Homestead Act

Question 26

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. Frederick Douglass

Question 27

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. Fort Pillow massacre

Question 28

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. Battle of Gettysburg

Question 29

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. New York City Draft Riots

Question 30

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. Hardtack

Question 31

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. The Trent affair

Question 32

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. Thirteenth Amendment

Question 33

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. The Florida and the Alabama ,

Question 34

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. Virginia v. Monitor

Question 35

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. Cotton diplomacy

Question 36

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. Freedmen's Bureau

Question 37

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. Morrill Land Grant Act

Question 38

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. William T. Sherman

Question 39

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. Emancipation Proclamation

Question 40

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. Sherman's March Through Georgia

Question 41

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 42

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. Election of 1864

Question 43

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 44

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. Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton

Question 45

What happened in Exparte Merryman?

A) The Supreme Court ruled that President Lincoln had exceeded his authority in suspending habeas corpus in Maryland.
B) President Lincoln agreed to abide by Supreme Court decisions on questions of presidential power.
C) President Lincoln was indicted for violating the Tenure of Office Act.
D) The Supreme Court ruled that in wartime the president had the authority to banish anyone making treasonable statements.
E) The Supreme Court ruled that civilians could not be tried by military tribunals when the civil courts were open.

Question 46

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 47

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 48

Who was the first and only president of the Confederacy?

A) Alexander Stevens
B) Robert E. Lee
C) Nathan Bedford Forrest
D) Jefferson Davis
E) William Seward

Question 49

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 had the necessary tax structure 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 50

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. Anna Dickinson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony

Question 51

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.

Question 52

Who was exempted 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 53

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 54

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. Andersonville

Question 55

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 56

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 57

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

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

Question 58

Why was the Union more politically cohesive than the Confederacy?

A) There was little political dissent in the North because northerners were united in a crusade against slavery.
B) The multiplicity of political parties in the South made Confederate party politics vicious and divisive.
C) The presence of a vocal and politically powerful opposition in the North forced the Republicans to unite behind their leader.
D) Jefferson Davis encouraged dissent as a way of sharpening Confederate resolve.
E) The South had no tradition of vigorous politics or strong political leadership.

Question 59

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. Belle Boyd

Question 60

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 61

Black soldiers in the Union army

A) were less likely than whites to die of diseases.
B) were usually treated as prisoners of war when captured by Confederate troops.
C) comprised nearly one-quarter of the Union army by the end of the war
D) were, from the start, paid the same as white soldiers.
E) typically assigned to labor detachments or garrison duty and were therefore less likely to be killed in action.

Question 62

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 first battle between ironclad ships.
E) It signified the importance of rifling in barrels.

Question 63

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 64

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 65

How did the Trent affair almost trigger a war between the United States and Great Britain?

A) American frontiersmen crossed the Canadian border and attacked some settlers.
B) A Union diplomat insulted the British monarch.
C) The Union navy seized a ship carrying Confederate diplomats going to Great Britain and France.
D) British shipyards built the Trent to serve in the Confederate navy as a commerce raider.
E) None of these choices

Question 66

Hardtack was

A) the nickname for the bayonet that was used by Union forces.
B) a type of biscuit was that was a mainstay in the rations of Union forces.
C) the tactic of quickly changing the direction of a military unit and hitting the enemy from an unexpected direction.
D) the ammunition that was used in the Enfield rifle.
E) a medal that all Union forces got to where after the war recognizing their service.

Question 67

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 68

Which Union general burned Atlanta during the Civil War?

A) William Tecumseh Sherman
B) Philip Sheridan
C) Ulysses S. Grant
D) George Hooker
E) Ambrose Burnside

Question 69

How did the Civil War affect ordinary workers in the North?

A) Most suffered from higher prices, increased taxes, and lagging wages.
B) Setbacks in the clothing industry caused large numbers of garment workers and seamstresses to lose their jobs.
C) Because of general prosperity, a smaller proportion of women had to work outside the home.
D) Income for ordinary workers in defense plants soared.
E) Because of the wartime emergency, national unions were able to win sizable wage increases for many workers.

Question 70

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 71

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 72

Originally developed by General Winfield Scott and later adopted by General Ulysses S. Grant, the Anaconda Strategy 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 73

Which of the following did not happen to southern agriculture during the Civil War?

A) Wheat and corn production declined.
B) Planters continued to plant cotton rather than grow food.
C) There was a serious shortage of agricultural workers.
D) Cotton production declined.
E) Southern farmwives took control of their farms and encouraged their husbands to stay in the army.

Question 74

Why did Cotton Diplomacy fail?

A) The Confederacy overestimated Britain's dependence on southern cotton.
B) Northern border states were able to supply Great Britain with all the cotton it needed.
C) Union forces destroyed most of the South's cotton fields in 1861 and 1862.
D) All of these choices
E) None of these choices

Question 75

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 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

During the Civil War, northern African American leaders such as Frederick Douglass worked as army recruiting agents because they believed that

A) it was the best way to prevent blacks from being drafted.
B) blacks were more resistant to the diseases that ravaged white soldiers in the garrisons.
C) blacks would get to see their loved ones in the South only by fighting for the Union.
D) by cooperating during the war they would be rewarded with greater civil rights after the war.
E) black participation in the army would be a step toward black citizenship.

Question 78

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 79

Why was Vicksburg so important to the Confederacy?

A) It was a key railroad junction between Chattanooga and Atlanta.
B) It was located at the entrance to Mobile Bay.
C) It allowed trade and communication between Confederate states on either side of the Mississippi River.
D) It was a great supply base.
E) It guarded the Union attack route into Tennessee.

Question 80

How did the Union and Confederate governments compare in their handling of dissent?

A) Because both governments originated from the same political tradition, they both viewed dissent the same way.
B) Abraham Lincoln was far less hesitant about imposing martial law and suspending the fundamental right of habeas corpus than was Jefferson Davis.
C) Compared with Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln had greater faith in democracy and therefore thought that dissent was a beneficial part of the political process.
D) Because of the Confederacy's belief in states' rights, dissent was expected and encouraged.
E) The Confederate government was prepared to act swiftly and harshly to stamp out dissent, which it equated with treason.