Deck 9: Rallying Point: Lincolns Ten Percent Plan, December 1863

Question 1

In 1863 William Rosecrans attacked the Army of Tennessee under ________.

A) Robert Lee
B) Stonewall Jackson
C) Braxton Bragg
D) James Longstreet

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of these did the Confederate press say turned the tide of battle in their favor?

A) Shiloh
B) Gettysburg
C) Chickamauga
D) Vicksburg

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Unlike Vicksburg Chattanooga ________.

A) was besieged by the enemy
B) required a long and costly siege
C) ended with a Confederate defeat
D) fell relatively easily

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Looking at Map 9.1 following Chattanooga the Confederates retreated to ________.

A) Atlanta GA
B) Nashville TN
C) Chickamauga GA
D) Decatur AL

Question 5

Through the efforts of Parson Brownlow East Tennessee was hoping to ________.

A) join the Confederacy
B) be delivered
C) ally with the rest of the state
D) create a new state

Question 6

The image "The Old Flag in East Tennessee" illustrated for Northerners the welcome they had long hoped to receive from ________.

A) slaves
B) Union loyalists
C) poor Southerners
D) African American troops

Question 7

The central question of reconstruction was ________.

A) how could the antebellum power structures of the South be preserved
B) how much material support would the South need to rebuild
C) how and when the seceded states could rejoin the Union
D) how could the rights of black voters in the Confederacy be ensured

Question 8

At the height of guerrilla fighting in Missouri a band of "mutant" guerillas attacked ________.

A) Springfield
B) Poplar Bluff
C) St. Louis
D) Lawrence KS

Question 9

In Missouri the decision concerning the course of abolition was decided by ________.

A) Lincoln
B) the state's Radicals
C) Confederate slave owners
D) Congress

Question 10

In Arkansas - after the taking of Little Rock - the Union army was met by ________.

A) large numbers of Unionist volunteers
B) indifference
C) a period of intense Confederate antagonism
D) guerilla violence

Question 11

Who called himself the "Moses" of the African Americans of Nashville?

A) Parson Brownlow
B) Jefferson Davis
C) Andrew Johnson
D) Abraham Lincoln

Question 12

In what state did the Free State Association emerge?

A) Missouri
B) Louisiana
C) Alabama
D) Tennessee

Question 13

Under Montgomery Blair's plan, reconstruction would proceed naturally once ________.

A) slaves were freed
B) the war ended
C) the Confederate government was disbanded
D) the Slave Power was removed

Question 14

Looking at Map 9.2, at the end of 1862 ________ was devoid of federal control.

A) Virginia
B) North Carolina
C) South Carolina
D) Louisiana

Question 15

In the Gettysburg Address Lincoln clearly stated his belief that ________ was the ultimate goal of the war.

A) punishing the Confederacy
B) preserving the Union
C) restoring unity
D) freedom

Question 16

Edward Everett took part in the ceremony at Gettysburg, with a speech that ________.

A) told the story of the battle
B) listed the Union's victories
C) promised amnesty to the Confederacy
D) traced the war's progress

Question 17

Which of these was NOT a provision of the 1863 Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction?

A) White Southerners could set up new governments when they numbered one-tenth of the voters in 1860.
B) Individuals had to swear they would be loyal to the Union.
C) Those swearing loyalty to the Union would have their property restored.
D) African Americans were to be proportionately represented in state legislatures.

Question 18

Radical Republican cities charged that the Ten Percent Plan was likely to give the Southern states to ________.

A) black voters
B) military control
C) back to white pre-war elites
D) federal control

Question 19

Unionist attitudes towards the Ten Percent Plan was colored largely by their belief in the idea of ________.

A) state sovereignty
B) the Slave Power conspiracy notion
C) rapid resunification
D) African American rights

Question 20

Based on evidence ________ of the Southerners who took up arms with the Union were converts from belief in the Confederacy.

A) most
B) none
C) a tiny minority
D) almost all

Question 21

Looking at Map 9.3, which of these saw no non-war conflict?

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

Question 22

Responding to the Ten Percent Plan, Jefferson Davis said that ________.

A) no negotiation was possible
B) reunification seemed increasingly likely
C) Lincoln's plan might attract some Confederate states
D) the plan may have opened the way to reunification

Question 23

Confederate opposition to their government's centralization ________ following the announcement of the Ten Percent Plan.

A) disappeared
B) increased
C) was set aside
D) grew violent

Question 24

Generally the Ten Percent Plan had a ________ effect on Confederate leadership.

A) divisive
B) galvanizing
C) disastrous
D) demoralizing

Question 25

As the war went on, Confederate national pride focused on ________.

A) their cause
B) the army
C) Jefferson Davis
D) women's courage