Deck 13: Transforming Fire: the Civil War

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the battles of Elkhorn Tavern, Arkansas, and Honey Springs, Arkansas
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Grant's Tennessee campaign
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The Union naval campaign
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the "Anaconda plan"
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the Seven Days Battles
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the attack on Fort Sumter
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the 1860 Democratic convention
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General Robert
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the battle of Second Bull Run
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the battles at Glorieta Pass
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General George McClellan
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the presidential election of 1860
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the Confederate States of America
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the Monitor and the Merrimack
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McClellan's Peninsula campaign
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the Battle of Shiloh
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President Jefferson Davis's general offensive
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the first Battle of Bull Run
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Ulysses S. Grant
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The "Free State of Jones"
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Jay Cooke
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Clara Barton, Dorothea Dix, and Mary Ann Bickerdyke
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Jefferson Davis
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establishment of a national banking system
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the Morrill Land Grant Act
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The "twenty-Negro" law
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the U.S. Sanitary Commission
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the Battle of Antietam
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the Confederate bureaucracy
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Confederate nationalism
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Josiah Gorgas
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the Homestead Act of 1862
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the mechanization of northern agriculture
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Montgomery Meigs
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northern labor activism
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the Quartermaster Department
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the Confederate tax-in-kind
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the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads
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the Confederate conscription law
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Hospital Sketches
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the Peace Democrats
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the Thirteenth Amendment
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the southern class system
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southern peace movements
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desertions from the Confederate army
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southern food riots
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Walt Whitman
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the Radical Republicans
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the Battle of Chancellorsville
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the Battle of Gettysburg
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Davis's emancipation plan
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the confiscation acts
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"The Prayer of Twenty Millions"
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the "minie ball"
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the Emancipation Proclamation
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the Battle of Vicksburg
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Lincoln's plan for gradual emancipation
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African American soldiers in the Union army
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Pickett's Charge
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Sherman's southern campaign
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the presidential election of 1864
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The first southern state to secede from the Union was

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the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
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Appomattox Court House
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Copperheads
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New York City draft riots
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northern diplomatic strategy
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Which of the following was true of the South during the early months of the Civil War?

A) Critical of South Carolina's decision to fire on Fort Sumter, many southerners called for peace negotiations.
B) Nonslaveholders began openly to express their long-suppressed hostility toward slaveholders.
C) Most southerners viewed the future with uncertainty.
D) Confederate armies had more volunteers than the government could properly arm.
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the "Long Walk"
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The first shots of the Civil War were fired at

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B) Charleston, South Carolina.
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D) Montgomery, Alabama.
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Clement L. Vallandigham
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the Sand Creek Massacre
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The dilemma facing Lincoln when he entered the presidency was

A) how to maintain the authority of the federal government without provoking war with the states that had seceded.
B) whether to recognize the Confederacy as an independent, sovereign nation.
C) how to work with a Congress controlled by Democrats.
D) whether to seek gradual or immediate emancipation of the slaves.
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In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president with

A) a majority of both popular and electoral votes.
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C) less than a majority of both popular and electoral votes.
D) less than a majority of popular votes and a majority of electoral votes.
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the Alabama
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At its 1860 convention, the Democratic Party

A) split into northern and southern wings, each nominating a different presidential candidate.
B) pledged to support the Court's decision in the Dred Scott case.
C) included a plank in its platform calling for the extension of the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific Ocean.
D) narrowly defeated an antislavery minority report calling for a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery.
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After the secession of South Carolina, which of the following arguments was advanced by southern extremists?

A) Those who favor compromise do not have the best interests of the South at heart and are traitors to the southern cause.
B) All southern states should follow South Carolina's lead and prepare to attack the North and take the western territories by force.
C) Other southern states should not be influenced by South Carolina's decision and must make their own independent decisions about withdrawing from the Union.
D) Even those who favor compromise should support secession because a better deal can be made by negotiating from outside rather than inside the Union.
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the fall of Atlanta
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the Trent affair
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the battles of Elkhorn Tavern, Arkansas, and Honey Springs, Arkansas
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Grant's Tennessee campaign
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Wallace Turnage
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The Union naval campaign
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the "Anaconda plan"
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the Seven Days Battles
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the attack on Fort Sumter
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the 1860 Democratic convention
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General Robert
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the battle of Second Bull Run
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the battles at Glorieta Pass
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General George McClellan
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the presidential election of 1860
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the Confederate States of America
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the Monitor and the Merrimack
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McClellan's Peninsula campaign
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the Battle of Shiloh
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President Jefferson Davis's general offensive
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the first Battle of Bull Run
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Ulysses S. Grant
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The "Free State of Jones"
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Jay Cooke
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Clara Barton, Dorothea Dix, and Mary Ann Bickerdyke
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Jefferson Davis
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establishment of a national banking system
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the Morrill Land Grant Act
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The "twenty-Negro" law
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the U.S. Sanitary Commission
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the Battle of Antietam
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the Confederate bureaucracy
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Confederate nationalism
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Josiah Gorgas
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the Homestead Act of 1862
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the mechanization of northern agriculture
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northern labor activism
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the Quartermaster Department
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the Confederate tax-in-kind
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the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads
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the Confederate conscription law
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Hospital Sketches
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the Thirteenth Amendment
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the southern class system
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southern peace movements
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desertions from the Confederate army
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southern food riots
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Walt Whitman
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the Radical Republicans
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the Battle of Chancellorsville
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the Battle of Gettysburg
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Davis's emancipation plan
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the confiscation acts
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"The Prayer of Twenty Millions"
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the "minie ball"
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the Emancipation Proclamation
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the Battle of Vicksburg
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Lincoln's plan for gradual emancipation
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African American soldiers in the Union army
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Pickett's Charge
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Sherman's southern campaign
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the presidential election of 1864
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The first southern state to secede from the Union was

A) Alabama.
B) Mississippi.
C) South Carolina.
D) Texas.
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the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
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Appomattox Court House
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Copperheads
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New York City draft riots
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northern diplomatic strategy
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Which of the following was true of the South during the early months of the Civil War?

A) Critical of South Carolina's decision to fire on Fort Sumter, many southerners called for peace negotiations.
B) Nonslaveholders began openly to express their long-suppressed hostility toward slaveholders.
C) Most southerners viewed the future with uncertainty.
D) Confederate armies had more volunteers than the government could properly arm.
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the "Long Walk"
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The first shots of the Civil War were fired at

A) Richmond, Virginia.
B) Charleston, South Carolina.
C) Newport News, Virginia.
D) Montgomery, Alabama.
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Clement L. Vallandigham
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the Sand Creek Massacre
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The dilemma facing Lincoln when he entered the presidency was

A) how to maintain the authority of the federal government without provoking war with the states that had seceded.
B) whether to recognize the Confederacy as an independent, sovereign nation.
C) how to work with a Congress controlled by Democrats.
D) whether to seek gradual or immediate emancipation of the slaves.
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In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president with

A) a majority of both popular and electoral votes.
B) a majority of popular votes and less than a majority of electoral votes.
C) less than a majority of both popular and electoral votes.
D) less than a majority of popular votes and a majority of electoral votes.
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the Alabama
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At its 1860 convention, the Democratic Party

A) split into northern and southern wings, each nominating a different presidential candidate.
B) pledged to support the Court's decision in the Dred Scott case.
C) included a plank in its platform calling for the extension of the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific Ocean.
D) narrowly defeated an antislavery minority report calling for a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery.
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After the secession of South Carolina, which of the following arguments was advanced by southern extremists?

A) Those who favor compromise do not have the best interests of the South at heart and are traitors to the southern cause.
B) All southern states should follow South Carolina's lead and prepare to attack the North and take the western territories by force.
C) Other southern states should not be influenced by South Carolina's decision and must make their own independent decisions about withdrawing from the Union.
D) Even those who favor compromise should support secession because a better deal can be made by negotiating from outside rather than inside the Union.
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the fall of Atlanta
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the Trent affair
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