Deck 11: Campaign Season: The Election of 1864

Question 1

Atlanta was finally taken when ________.

A) the city's defenses were breached
B) Sherman ordered a new round of bombardment
C) the city came close to starvation
D) Confederate forces were drawn away from the city

Answer 1

D

Question 2

In the larger picture Sherman believed victory could be won by ________.

A) soft war
B) a huge show of force
C) a scorched earth policy
D) lenient treatment of the defeated

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Of the citizens of Atlanta expelled from the city by Sherman about ________ went north.

A) half
B) one-fifth
C) three-quarters
D) one-hundredth

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The fall of Mobile Bay was significant because it was the last ________.

A) Confederate capital to fall
B) of the Confederate ports on the Mississippi
C) Confederate port on the Gulf of Mexico
D) Confederate stronghold to fall

Question 5

The second Valley Campaign was primarily ________.

A) an attack on Confederate resources
B) meant to draw attention from the Atlanta Campaign
C) a holding strategy
D) intended to weaken Southern morale

Question 6

Fighting in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864 ________ (Map 11.1).

A) was marked by steady Union progress
B) threatened Richmond
C) led to a Union retreat
D) eventually led to the fall of Richmond

Question 7

"The Burning" was an example of ________.

A) a scorched earth campaign
B) soft war
C) classic siege techniques
D) hard war

Question 8

The National Union party was divided between moderates and abolitionists, just as the ________ had been.

A) Radical Democracy party
B) Democrats
C) Copperheads
D) Republicans

Question 9

In Figure 11.3 (in the text) McClellan is portrayed as ________.

A) a poor military leader
B) subservient to Lincoln
C) a Confederate pawn
D) anti-abolitionist

Question 10

Which of these was a key theme of Lincoln's supporters in the 1864 presidential campaign?

A) the treachery of Jefferson Davis
B) the brutality of Confederate war tactics
C) the success of wartime reconstruction
D) expansion of black rights

Question 11

Radical Republicans focused on ________ in the 1864 presidential election.

A) African American rights
B) Jefferson Davis' policies
C) white Southerners' redemption
D) the pace of reconstruction

Question 12

In Figure 11.5(in the text) McClellan is essentially depicted as a ________.

A) Radical Republican
B) traitor
C) white supremacist
D) savior

Question 13

The fall of Atlanta had the effect of ________.

A) encouraging the Confederate Copperheads
B) threatening the presidency of Jefferson Davis
C) strengthening Confederate hard-liners
D) increasing desertions from the Confederate army

Question 14

Dissension between the Confederate president and his vice president became outright war in the context of what other conflict?

A) the Shenandoah Valley Campaign
B) the 1864 Union election
C) Davis' bid for reelection
D) Sherman's March to the Sea

Question 15

The election of 1864 gave Lincoln ________

A) a weak mandate and his opponents got control of Congress
B) a strong mandate and no change in Congress
C) a weak mandate and control of Congress
D) a strong mandate as president and a majority in Congress

Question 16

In the 1864 election Lincoln had the support of a(n) ________ soldiers who voted

A) solid majority
B) tiny minority
C) large minority
D) overwhelming majority

Question 17

Following the election of 1864 Jefferson Davis ________ his hardline stance towards the Union.

A) developed
B) modified
C) reversed
D) reiterated

Question 18

Sherman's path to Savannah was up to ________ miles wide.

A) five
B) twenty
C) sixty
D) ten

Question 19

Looking at Map 11.3 Sherman's March to the Sea was ________ in its last month.

A) hard fought with several large battles
B) nearly uncontested
C) marked by a series of skirmishes
D) extremely rapid

Question 20

Following a strongly held Northern belief Sherman thought his March to the Sea would lead Georgia to ________.

A) free its slaves
B) welcome the Union army
C) declare peace
D) support Jefferson Davis

Question 21

Unlike Nashville and Fredericksburg, Savannah ________.

A) held out against Union forces for weeks
B) was beseiged for months
C) was a key Confederate city
D) surrendered to the Union without a struggle

Question 22

The destructive fire that destroyed much of Columbia was started to ________.

A) slow Sherman and his troops
B) punish the city for the long siege
C) keep resources out of Union hands
D) punish the city for capitulating to Sherman

Question 23

Secretary of War Stanton traveled to Savannah to investigate Sherman's treatment of ________.

A) Union loyalists
B) African Americans
C) civilians
D) Confederate prisoners

Question 24

Special Field Order No. 15 gave freedpeople ________.

A) forty acre plots of abandoned land
B) guaranteed seats in Georgia's House of Representatives
C) voting rights
D) confirmation of the Emancipation Proclamation

Question 25

It is likely that Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15 was ________.

A) inspired by Sherman's racial beliefs
B) intended to begin reshaping the South's class system
C) a political move aimed at Jefferson Davis
D) a practical solution to his current problem