Deck 10: Is This Hell Fort Pillow to Atlanta

Question 1

The February 1864 plan to attack Richmond included the distribution of copies of the ________.

A) Emancipation Proclamation
B) the report on the Union prison system
C) Ten Percent Plan
D) accounts of the massacre at Fort Pillow

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The purpose of the attack on Fort Pillow was to ________.

A) undermine Sherman's progress
B) end the siege of Atlanta
C) retake Tennessee
D) pacify guerillas in the area

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The attack on Fort Pillow ended with a ________.

A) narrow Union victory
B) brutal massacre
C) Confederate retreat
D) massive Union victory

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Figure 10.1(in the text) was intended to raise ________.

A) Southerners' awareness of Confederate atrocities
B) doubts about the righteousness of the Union cause
C) support for the Ten Percent Plan
D) sympathy for African American soldiers

Question 5

Which of these led Lincoln to abandon the Dix-Hill cartel system?

A) feelings about Fort Pillow
B) Confederate reaction to the Emancipation Proclamation
C) the capture of Atlanta
D) reactions to the Ten Percent Plan

Question 6

The Overland Campaign had the effect of turning Andersonville from ________ to ________.

A) overcrowded; lethal
B) good; bad condition
C) full; overcrowded
D) horrifying; tolerable

Question 7

The images in Figure 10.2 (in the text) would have had the impact of ________ Union feelings about treatment of POWs.

A) inflaming
B) moderating
C) reversing
D) complicating

Question 8

Suspension of the Dix-Hill system was met with ________ in the Union.

A) celebration
B) violence
C) opposition
D) relief

Question 9

At the Wilderness Lee intentionally used the terrain to ________.

A) slow Grant's counterattack
B) protect his cavalry
C) remove the Union advantage
D) begin a fire that would consume Richmond

Question 10

Which of these aspects of the Overland Campaign is illustrated by Map 10.1?

A) the siege of Richmond
B) Grant's steady progress south
C) Lee's defense of Richmond
D) Lee's success in drawing Grant away from Richmond

Question 11

The Overland Campaign cost the Union and Confederate armies ________ and ________ percent of their forces respectively.

A) 40; 36
B) 17; 52
C) 23; 67
D) 9; 25

Question 12

In Map 10.2 Lee's move from the Wilderness to Spotsylvania appears ________.

A) deliberate
B) desperate
C) a rout
D) chaotic

Question 13

Grant's actions in the Overland Campaign were ________.

A) bold but unsuccessful
B) overly cautious and a failure
C) successful but costly
D) misguided and disastrous

Question 14

Sherman began his Atlanta Campaign with the goal of ________.

A) stopping reinforcement of Lee's forces
B) taking the city in two weeks
C) taking Georgia
D) ending the Overland Campaign

Question 15

Under its 1864 constitution Louisiana did NOT ________.

A) use the contract labor system
B) give blacks the vote
C) end slavery
D) permit blacks in the public education system

Question 16

In 1864 Lincoln ran for president as the ________ nominee.

A) Radical Democracy
B) Democrat
C) Republican
D) National Union

Question 17

Which of these was NOT one of the former Confederate states that sent delegates to the National Union party convention in 1864?

A) Louisiana
B) Arkansas
C) Tennessee
D) Georgia

Question 18

Unlike Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan the Wade-Davis Bill required former Confederate states to ________ to be readmitted to the Union.

A) swear oaths of loyalty
B) states maintained their status as US states
C) guarantee slaves' freedom
D) enfranchise blacks

Question 19

The Wade-Davis bill ended with ________.

A) unanimous passage
B) narrow passage
C) a pocket veto
D) Lincoln's veto

Question 20

Surrendering and retreating black soldiers were executed, and those taken prisoner at the Battle of the Crater were ________.

A) sold into slavery
B) repatriated
C) exchanged
D) paroled

Question 21

"Railroad generalship" refers to the Union ________.

A) practice of rushing military leaders to battlefronts on trains
B) strategy to control Confederate supply lines
C) dependence on railroads when deep within Confederate lines
D) use of railroads for transport

Question 22

As with Grant's Overland Campaign, Sherman's Atlanta Campaign featured ________ (Map 10.3).

A) a disastrous Confederate retreat
B) a string of bloody sieges
C) the Union's steady push south
D) an uncontested Union advance

Question 23

The Union bombardment of Atlanta on August 9 ________.

A) caused massive civilian casualties
B) was followed by a Union retreat
C) led to the city's surrender
D) to dislodge Hood

Question 24

The leader of the Confederate Copperheads was ________.

A) Alexander Stephens
B) Clement Vallandingham
C) Jefferson Davis
D) George McClellan

Question 25

Alexander Stephens suggested making peace proposals to the North to ________.

A) bring the war to a quick conclusion
B) oust Jefferson Davis from office
C) weaken Lincoln's bid for reelection
D) end the war on Confederate terms