Deck 13: The American Civil War, 1861-1865

Question 1

The first major battle of the Civil War was​

A) ​the Battle of Antietam.
B) ​the Battle of Vicksburg.
C) ​the Battle of Bull Run.
D) ​ ​the Battle of Gettysburg.
E) ​the Battle of Shiloh.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

As a general, George McClellan always took swift and decisive action.​

Answer 2

False

Question 3

At the outset of the Civil War, Lincoln and Congress declared that their primary goal was to ​

A) ​punish the South for seceding.
B) ​free Southern slaves.
C) ​set an example for European nations.
D) ​restore the Union.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

In the process of mobilizing for war, both sides expanded the power of their national governments.

Question 5

​Which of the following is true about each side as it entered the Civil War?

A) ​The North had superior industrial and labor resources.
B) ​Both sides predicted a quick victory.
C) ​Confederates counted on their fighting spirit to carry them to victory.
D) ​The South hoped to secure an alliance with Britain and France due to commercial ties with both.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 6

In the Civil War, both sides invoked the nation's history and principles to justify their cause.​

Question 7

At the beginning of the Civil War, the regular Union army had __________________ men.​

A) ​17,000
B) ​20,000
C) ​50,000
D) ​67,000
E) ​100,000

Question 8

In the backcountry of eastern Tennessee and western Virginia, ​non-slaveholding whites sabotaged Confederate operations.

Question 9

Which of the following is true about the European perception of the Civil War?​

A) ​European abolitionists sympathized with the Union and the idea of free labor.
B) ​Karl Marx argued that the defeat of the Confederacy would free workers everywhere.
C) ​Europe's landed elite sympathized with Southern landowners.
D) ​Before siding with the Confederacy, European rulers wanted evidence that it was a viable nation.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 10

The Supreme Court ruling ex parte Merrryman ​ (1861) declared that only   ___________________  could suspend habeas corpus.

A) ​the president
B) ​Congress
C) ​a state legislature
D) the Secretary of State
E) a municipal justice

Question 11

The Trent Affair was a diplomatic crisis that took place when​

A) ​Confederate envoys were seized on a British ship in the Caribbean.
B) ​Union officials took British soldiers who were fighting for the Confederacy captive.
C) ​Union envoys were seized on a British ship in the Caribbean.
D) ​Union officials went to London to negotiate and alliance, then refused to talk to British diplomats.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 12

Despite the blockade, a trade in __________________  flourished between the British and the Confederates.​

A) ​cotton
B) ​slaves
C) ​weapons and ships
D) ​rice
E) ​tobacco

Question 13

​The Confederate government eventually gave formal recognition to the Second Mexican Empire.

Question 14

Civil War doctors were fairly successful at preventing infection.​

Question 15

King Cotton Diplomacy involved​

A) ​the South freeing their slaves from their responsibilities on the plantation to serve as soldiers for the South.
B) ​Southerners withholding cotton from Britain to impose pressure for military support.
C) ​Southerners withholding cotton from the Union to impose commercial pressure.
D) ​Southerners relying on wealthy planters to fill diplomatic posts.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 16

In Indian territory, ​all tribes supported the Union.

Question 17

One reason for the high death tolls in the Civil War was the new  weaponry to which soldiers were slow to adjust.​

Question 18

Along with John Wilkes Booth, eight of his accomplices were arrested.​

Question 19

The Union blockade on Southern ships​

A) ​was enforced strongly from the first day.
B) ​did not necessarily imply that the South was a sovereign nation.
C) ​was supported by the British.
D) ​was not enforced initially but did stop Confederate ships by 1863.
E) ​reinforced the successful policy of King Cotton Diplomacy.

Question 20

Most of the Civil War's battles were fought in the South.​

Question 21

The westernmost battle of the Civil War was

A) ​Vicksburg.
B) ​Antietam.
C) ​Glorieta Pass.
D) ​Chattanooga.
E) ​Chickamauga.

Question 22

After Union forces secured the territory, ​West Virginia joined the Union in

A) ​1861.
B) ​1862.
C) ​1863.
D) ​1864.
E) ​1865.

Question 23

After Bull Run, Lincoln turned to ___________________ ​ to lead the army of the Potomac.

A) ​Ulysses S. Grant
B) ​George B. McClellan
C) ​William T. Sherman
D) George G. Meade
E) ​George A. Custer

Question 24

Greenbacks

A) ​were issued by the U.S. government.
B) were ​not backed by silver or gold.
C) ​held their value during the war.
D) ​were issued by a national banking system created in 1863.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 25

Union forces gained control of the Mississippi river following the Battle of ​

A) ​Gettysburg.
B) ​Vicksburg.
C) ​Chattanooga.
D) ​Antietam.
E) ​New Orleans.

Question 26

Which of the following is true about the second year of the Civil War?​

A) ​Both sides realized that the conflict would not be over soon.
B) ​Union forces secured key areas in the West.
C) ​Confederate generals turned back offensives in Virginia.
D) ​Both sides struggled to care for an unprecedented number of sick and wounded soldiers.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 27

Guerrilla warfare broke out in which of the border states?​

A) ​Missouri
B) ​Delaware
C) ​Maryland
D) ​Kentucky
E) ​None of these are correct

Question 28

Which of the following is true about the role of women in the Civil War?​

A) ​They played a relatively insignificant role.
B) ​Southern women formed the United States Sanitary Commission early in the war.
C) ​Northern women were generally inexperienced at organizing and conducting relief efforts.
D) ​As nurses, they took lessons from Florence Nightingale and her service in the Crimean War.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 29

In areas secured by the Union army,​

A) ​runaway slaves tried to seek freedom.
B) ​some Union generals returned runaway slaves under the Fugitive Slave Act.
C) ​some Union generals placed runaway slaves in makeshift camps.
D) ​Lincoln countermanded the orders of Union generals who had declared slaves free.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 30

Casualties at the Battle of Gettysburg totaled ​

A) ​10,000.
B) 20,000.​
C) ​30,000.
D) ​40,000.
E) ​50,000.

Question 31

Which of the following was a source of tension within the Confederacy?​

A) ​the Confederate government's claim on men and resources.
B) ​non-slaveholders who refused to cooperate with tax collectors and impressment officers.
C) the Confederate draft law that allowed men to hire substitutes in order to avoid the draft.​
D) ​the Confederate draft law that exempted one white man per plantation that had twenty or more slaves.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 32

After the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation, ​

A) ​more than one-fifth of the South's African American slaves ran away.
B) ​Confederates dismissed it as a revolutionary measure aimed to spark a race war in the South.
C) ​most Northerners supported Lincoln's decree.
D) northern Democrats stoked fears about intermarriage with blacks.​
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 33

The Battle of Gettysburg was a major loss for Confederate General​

A) ​Robert E. Lee.
B) ​Braxton Bragg.
C) ​Stonewall Jackson.
D) ​Joseph Johnston.
E) ​P. G. T. Beauregard.

Question 34

In the North, the Civil War became increasingly unpopular among​

A) ​women.
B) ​state legislators.
C) ​industrialists.
D) ​working class laborers.
E) ​free blacks.

Question 35

Napoleon III installed Archduke Maximilian ​of Austria as Emperor of

A) ​Spain.
B) ​Mexico.
C) ​Columbia.
D) ​Brazil.
E) ​Venezuela.

Question 36

Which of the following is true about the Peninsular Campaign?​

A) ​It was led by George Meade.
B) ​It took place in Virginia.
C) ​It took place in 1864.
D) ​It was a decisive victory against Robert E. Lee
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 37

Lincoln issued a Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation following the Battle of ___________________ , which declared slaves to be freed in the Confederate states on January 1, 1863 unless they swore allegiance to the Union.

A) ​Shiloh
B) ​Antietam
C) ​Gettysburg
D) ​Vicksburg
E) Chattanooga

Question 38

The Sand Creek Massacre was an attack on​

A) ​a black regiment fighting for the Union.
B) ​Confederate deserters.
C) ​Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians.
D) ​escaped slaves.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 39

Which of the following is not true about the Confederate government?​

A) ​Jefferson Davis asserted control over arms, supplies and troops.
B) The government continued to bolster the rights of the states.
C) ​It established a draft in 1862.
D) ​It passed a ten percent tax to be paid in farm products.
E) ​It impressed slaves to build fortifications.

Question 40

Peace Democrats opposed​

A) ​emancipation.
B) ​the draft.
C) ​wartime legislation.
D) ​Lincoln's policies.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 41

During the war, the Confederacy ​

A) ​could not meet the agricultural and industrial demands of the war.
B) ​scrambled to build new railroad lines and factories.
C) ​had food and clothing shortages among civilians.
D) ​suffered a labor shortage as men enlisted and slaves fled.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 42

As many as ___________________  soldiers died in the Civil War.​

A) ​200,000.
B) ​300,000.
C) ​450,000.
D) 700,000.
E) ​1,000,000.

Question 43

Lee surrendered to Grant formally on ___________________ .​

A) ​December 24, 1864.
B) ​January 30, 1865.
C) April 9, 1865.​
D) ​April 15, 1865.
E) ​May 30, 1865.

Question 44

The Civil War's most important political turning point was

A) ​Lincoln's re-election.
B) ​George McClellan's run as the Democratic candidate.
C) ​Lincoln's selection of Andrew Johnson as vice president.
D) ​Lincoln proposing his plans for Reconstruction.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 45

Lee surrendered to Grant in​

A) ​an abandoned plantation.
B) ​Appomattox Court House.
C) ​the Virginia State Capitol Building.
D) ​Washington, D.C.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 46

Sherman's March to the Sea took place in ​

A) ​Florida.
B) ​Georgia.
C) ​Virginia.
D) ​South Carolina.
E) ​North Carolina.

Question 47

German and Italian unification took place in

A) ​1865.
B) ​1867.
C) ​1869
D) ​1871.
E) ​1875.

Question 48

Which of the following is true about the Civil War's effect on women's roles?​

A) ​Clerical work, nursing, and teaching once again became men's work.
B) ​Opportunities in factories increased during and after the war.
C) ​After the war, fewer colleges allowed women to enroll.
D) ​Middle class women overwhelmingly longed to break away from the confines of the home.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 49

In Mexico, after the Civil War,  ​

A) ​50,000 federal soldiers marched to the U.S.-Mexican borders.
B) ​U.S. officials pressured France to withdraw from Mexico.
C) ​the United States established a naval blockade to prevent Austrian reinforcements.
D) ​President Juárez was restored to office and the Mexican Republic was saved.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 50

The Lieber Code was prompted by​

A) ​violence towards civilians.
B) ​Confederate brutality towards black soldiers.
C) ​Union violence towards captured Confederates.
D) ​Confederate violence towards captured Union soldiers.
E) ​the high number of casualties in the Civil War.

Question 51

In 1864, Lincoln appointed General ___________________  the commander of all Union forces.​

A) ​Meade
B) ​McClellan
C) ​Grant
D) ​Sherman
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 52

As a result of the Civil War, the South suffered from

A) ​destroyed railroads.
B) ​destroyed industries.
C) ​destroyed farms.
D) ​defaced landscape.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 53

The Homestead Act granted ___________________ acres of public land to settlers who remained for five years.​

A) ​20
B) ​50
C) ​75
D) ​160
E) ​210

Question 54

Which of the following was not a U.S. innovation in warfare used for the first time during the Civil War?​

A) ​repeating rifles
B) ​submarines
C) ​minié balls
D) ​land mines
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 55

John Wilkes Booth assassinated president Lincoln on ​

A) ​January 15, 1865.
B) ​April 14, 1865.
C) ​June 5, 1865.
D) ​July 4, 1865.
E) ​August 10, 1865.

Question 56

Which of the following is true about women in the war effort during the Civil War?​

A) ​Women disguised themselves as men to fight in the army.
B) ​Both sides during the war benefited from female spies.
C) ​Civilian women provided important information to both Union and Confederate officers.
D) ​Confederate women collected silverware and jewelry to donate to the war effort.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 57

Which of the following is true about the economic impact of the Civil War?​

A) ​It brought prosperity to the North.
B) ​The South's share of the nation's wealth fell by 60 percent.
C) ​Little was done to moderate class and gender inequalities.
D) ​For the North, it set the foundation for future growth.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 58

The Overland Campaign​

A) ​was fought between Grant and Lee's armies.
B) ​was fought over a six-week period.
C) ​cost the Confederacy 35,000 casualties.
D) ​cost the Union 65,000 casualties.
E) ​All of these is correct.

Question 59

Nearly ___________________  slaves followed Sherman during his March to the Sea.

A) ​5,000.
B) ​10,000.
C) ​20,000.
D) ​30,000.

Question 60

Which of the following is not true about abolitionism, civil rights and the Civil War?​

A) ​Few believed that Lincoln would align the goal of abolitionism with the war effort.
B) ​Most Northerners were abolitionists from the outset of the war.
C) Even after the war, most Northerners did not support extending voting to blacks.
D) Even after the war, most Northerners saw blacks as racially inferior.
E) ​Following the war, white Southerners strengthened their defense of white supremacy.

Question 61

Talk About:  Glorieta Pass​

Question 62

Talk About:  contraband​

Question 63

Talk About:  Robert E. Lee​

Question 64

Talk About:  General George B. McClellan​

Question 65

Talk About:  Susie King Taylor​

Question 66

Talk About:  Clara Barton​

Question 67

Talk About:  United States Sanitary Commission ​

Question 68

Talk About:  Czar Alexander II​

Question 69

Talk About:  habeas corpus​

Question 70

Talk About:  Emancipation Proclamation​

Question 71

Talk About:  King Cotton Diplomacy​

Question 72

Talk About:   Trent Affair​

Question 73

Talk About:  guerillas​

Question 74

Talk About:  ironclads​

Question 75

Talk About:  Battle of Bull Run​

Question 76

Talk About:  Peninsular Campaign​

Question 77

Talk About:  Battle of Antietam​

Question 78

Talk About:  Florence Nightingale​

Question 79

Talk About:  Battle of Shiloh​

Question 80

​ Talk About:  West Virginia