Deck 5: Countdown to Jubilee: Lincolns Hundred Days

Question 1

Which of these did Lincoln issue in September 1862?

A) the Emancipation Proclamation
B) General Order No. 5
C) the Second Confiscation Act
D) the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The preliminary Emancipation Proclamation would have been valid ONLY in ________.

A) border states
B) Union states
C) Confederate-held states
D) occupied areas

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of these is most clearly reflected in Lincoln's preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?

A) ideology
B) political pressure
C) religious beliefs
D) strategy

Answer 3

D

Question 4

For opponents of the Emancipation Proclamation the latter was linked to the suspension of habeas corpus because both measures ________.

A) would lead to conscription
B) expanded presidential authority
C) were supported by Democrats
D) embittered Northern civilians

Question 5

Which of these was key in dashing Confederate hopes of cotton diplomacy?

A) the Battle of Antietam
B) the Confederate failure to regain Maryland
C) the Second Confiscation Act
D) Second Bull Run

Question 6

Executives of ________ Union or Union-held states endured the proposed Emancipation Proclamation at the Altoona meeting.

A) 3
B) 7
C) 11
D) 17

Question 7

In the image "Emancipation as a Military Necessity" which of these have NOT failed to suppress the Confederate rebellion?

A) skill
B) emancipation
C) strategy
D) the draft

Question 8

General Buckner used the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation to incite ________ in Kentucky.

A) attacks on Union headquarters
B) an uprising by Union loyalists
C) attacks on free African Americans
D) fear of a race war

Question 9

Which of these led the Confederate campaign to win Tennessee in 1862?

A) Don Carlos Buell
B) Ulysses Grant
C) Braxton Bragg
D) Robert Lee

Question 10

Just as in Maryland the Kentucky campaign ended with a ________.

A) long standoff
B) high casualty rate but no clear victory
C) Confederate defeat
D) Union defeat

Question 11

Looking at Map 5.1 the Confederate retreat ________.

A) brought them back to square one
B) maintained some of their gains in Kentucky
C) placed them in a position to threaten Union troops in Tennessee
D) left them in command in Kentucky

Question 12

Vicksburg was key to ________.

A) protecting Kentucky
B) the protection of Washington, D.C.
C) control of the Mississippi
D) winning New Orleans

Question 13

Which of these men headed the Union effort to take Vicksburg?

A) Robert Lee
B) David Farragut
C) George McClellan
D) Ulysses Grant

Question 14

Lincoln said of ________, "I can't spare this man, he fights."

A) Burnside
B) Grant
C) Pope
D) McClellan

Question 15

Following his common pattern McClellan followed Antietam with a period of ________.

A) pursuit of the retreating enemy
B) retreat to his home
C) campaigning for the presidency
D) little action

Question 16

In late 1862 the Army of the Potomac had ________ troops.

A) 90,000
B) 45,000
C) 120,000
D) 12,000

Question 17

The Union Fredericksburg campaign stalled while waiting for ________.

A) cavalry
B) gunboats
C) pontoons
D) reinforcements

Question 18

In Map 5.2, Longstreet had the advantage of ________.

A) more artillery
B) topography
C) river transport
D) the river's protection

Question 19

In the Battle of Fredericksburg, Union casualties were roughly ________ those of the Confederacy.

A) half
B) twice
C) equal to
D) a quarter

Question 20

Confederates considered Fredericksburg a ________ and ________ victory.

A) moral and strategic
B) military and moral
C) strategic and tactical
D) military and political

Question 21

Which of these wrote of her nursing experiences in Hospital Sketches?

A) Louisa May Alcott
B) Mary Livermore
C) Elizabeth Blackwell
D) Louisa Lee Schuyler

Question 22

In his 1862 Annual Message to Congress Lincoln argued for ________ emancipation.

A) immediate
B) Retroactive
C) delaying
D) gradual compensated

Question 23

Which of these fears was the 1862 Annual Message intended to allay?

A) Emancipation would bring job competition between whites and blacks.
B) Radical Republicans had drafted the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
C) Emancipation would mean economic disaster for the Confederacy.
D) The proposed Emancipation Proclamation was too radical.

Question 24

From the end of 1862 into 1863 African Americans ________.

A) began to flee to the Union in large numbers
B) anticipated the promulgation of the Emancipation Proclamation
C) lined up to join the Union army
D) feared violence from extreme Democrats

Question 25

In "Waiting for the Hour" which of these is symbolized by the tall figure on the right?

A) Insurrection
B) Joy
C) Faith
D) Liberty