Deck 13: The Union Severed

Question 1

Which of the following war measures did southern civilians call into question during the conflict?

A) conscription
B) impressment
C) taxation
D) All of the above.

Answer 1

All of the above.

Question 2

Favorable statistics of population and industrial development invariably decide the outcome of a war.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The war made it impossible for many northern and southern women to conform to traditional gender roles.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Confederate women played a vital role in caring for the sick and wounded during the war.

Question 5

Most of the changes experienced by women in war work remained in place after the conflict ended.

Question 6

The Republican Party completely united behind its war-weary president in the election of 1864.

Question 7

In the election of 1864, President Lincoln surprised himself, his party, and the nation by taking 55 percent of the popular vote.

Question 8

Slaveholders eagerly allowed the impressment of their slaves for war work.

Question 9

By December of 1864, the Confederate desertion rate topped 50 percent.

Question 10

When the war ended, approximately 3 million American men had served in the military on both sides.

Question 11

The death rate during the Civil War was five times greater than World War II.

Question 12

Historians estimate that southern wealth declined by roughly 43 percent during the war years.

Question 13

At the end of the war, roughly 30 million African American slaves were free.

Question 14

In Ex parte Merryman, Chief Justice ________ of the Supreme Court ruled that if the public's safety was endangered, only Congress had the right to suspend the writ of habeas corpus.

Question 15

Winfield Scott, the Union commanding general at the beginning of the Civil War, favored a cautious, long-term strategy known as the ________.

Question 16

The early struggle of the Civil War in the East focused on the capture of ________, the Confederacy's capital and one of the South's most important railroad, industrial, and munitions centers.

Question 17

Originally a U.S. warship, which sank as the federal navy abandoned the Norfolk Navy Yard, the Confederates raised the ________ and covered it with heavy armor.

Question 18

Immigrant workers in eastern cities and those who lived in the southern parts of the Midwest had little sympathy for abolitionism or blacks, supporting the antiwar stance of the Peace Democrats, often referred to as ________.

Question 19

Unless rebellious states (or parts of states in rebellion) returned to the Union by January 1, 1863, the president would declare their slaves "forever free," according to the ________.

Question 20

On July 3, 1863, General Robert E. Lee sent about 15,000 men in a gallant but futile assault, known as ________ against the Union center at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Question 21

Fashionable Washington photographer ________, realizing that the camera was the "eye of history," asked Lincoln for permission to record the war.