Deck 12: A House Divided: Civil War, 1861-1865

Question 1

Which of the following statements regarding African American troops serving in the Union army is true? ​

A)They were paid the same wages as white troops.
B)From the beginning,they played an integral role in many fighting units.
C)​They distinguished themselves in battles in Louisiana and South Carolina.
D)​All of these

Answer 1

​They distinguished themselves in battles in Louisiana and South Carolina.

Question 2

Which of the following groups was most likely to have taken part in the New York City draft riots of 1863? ​

A)African Americans
B)Shop owners
C)​Recent immigrants
D)​Mothers of draft-age sons
E)​Supporters of slavery

Answer 2

​Recent immigrants

Question 3

Who served as superintendent of nurses for the Union army? ​

A)Dorothea Dix
B)Clara Barton
C)​Louisa May Alcott
D)​Walt Whitman
E)​Kate Cumming

Answer 3

Dorothea Dix

Question 4

Union advantages at the beginning of the war included all of the following except ​

A)A large white population
B)A network of railroads and canals
C)​Solid industrial capacity
D)​Ships and naval experience
E)​Its large geographical size

Question 5

What percent of the Union army was comprised of immigrants? ​

A)10 to 15
B)15 to 20
C)​20 to 25
D)​25 to 30

Question 6

What was the capital of the Confederacy?

A)Richmond
B)Charleston
C)​Atlanta
D)​Savannah
E)​Raleigh

Question 7

What was the major reason why the South suffered food shortages on the home front during the war? ​

A)It sold many of its crops abroad to help finance its war effort
B)It continued to concentrate on raising cotton instead of food crops
C)​Wealthy families hoarded food
D)​All of the above

Question 8

Which of the following statements concerning women in the Civil War is true? ​

A)Women volunteered for military service in northern armies.
B)Women quickly became respected as nurses in both armies.
C)​In the South,the U.S.Sanitary Commission coordinated women's relief efforts.
D)​Dorothea Dix later established the Red Cross as a result of her experiences in the war.
E)​Women gained fame for their fighting abilities in the conflict.

Question 9

Class tensions during the war escalated due to ​

A)Wealthy people's hoarding of food and gold 
B)Common southerner's resentment that richer classes could avoid the draft
C)​Claims that richer classes managed to gain tax exemptions that lower classes could not
D)​All of the above
E)​None of the above

Question 10

Why did President Lincoln suspend the writ of habeas corpus? ​

A)To keep Missouri in the Union
B)To keep Maryland secessionists in jail
C)​To encourage Kentucky to vote against secession
D)​Both to keep Missouri in the Union and Maryland secessionists in jail  
E)​Both to keep Maryland secessionists in jail and encourage Kentucky to vote against secession

Question 11

What caused the bread riot? ​

A)A lack of sufficient supplies of bread during the wartime South
B)Widespread starvation
C)​Suspicions that merchants created wartime shortages of flour to drive prices up
D)​All of these 
E)​None of these

Question 12

Rose Greenhow is noteworthy because she ​

A)was the chief nurse for the Confederacy
B)posed as a man to serve as a soldier during the war
C)​was an expert spy who helped General Beauregard to victory at Bull Run
D)​raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds and supplies for the Confederacy

Question 13

To raise an army,the Union ​

A)Enlisted rich and poor men side by side
B)Saw the creation of immigrant-specific units
C)​Required troops to serve for three years
D)​All of these choices

Question 14

The Civil War was financed through ​

A)loans.
B)taxes.
C)​the printing of paper money.
D)​All of these

Question 15

Britain did not come to the aid of the Confederacy - as the latter had hoped - because ​

A)Its leaders clashed with Jefferson Davis
B)It had stockpiled cotton and did not need to trade with the South
C)​It had signed a treaty of alliance with the North
D)​It resented the South's relationship with France

Question 16

All of the following were the advantages the Confederacy had over the Union at the start of the Civil War except ​

A)A larger geographical terrain to navigate
B)Its long border with Mexico 
C)​Its large industrial capacity
D)​A network of country roads that made sneak attacks possible
E)​Generals with greater military experience than those in the North

Question 17

Who was the founder of the American Red Cross? ​

A)Clara Barton
B)Dorothea Dix
C)​Phoebe Pember
D)​John Sullivan
E)​Jane McClellan

Question 18

The South's military strategy at the beginning of the war focused on ​

A)Attacking the northern commercial centers
B)Focusing on a defensive approach
C)Targeting Union military bases
D)​Blockading ships and supplies from entering the North
E)​All of these

Question 19

What did the war mean for women's lives? ​

A)Opportunities to serve as nurses or spies
B)New jobs in government
C)​Financial difficulties
D)​All of these choices

Question 20

What made Jefferson Davis seem a more likely wartime leader than Abraham Lincoln?

A)He had served in the war with Mexico
B)He had previously served as Secretary of War
C)​He had served more time in political office
D)​All of these

Question 21

Of the 45,000 Union men held as prisoners of war at Andersonville,approximately 20 percent died.​

Question 22

General Winfield Scott's Anaconda Plan intended to use the Mason-Dixon line to divide the South into two parts and squeeze the life from it.​

Question 23

Andersonville was the prisoner of war camp in Georgia,where an estimated one-third of the prisoners died.​

Question 24

Renegades was the nickname given to antiwar Democrats sympathetic to the South.​

Question 25

The Confederate Impressment Act was passed to fill vacancies in the army due to desertions.​

Question 26

Confederate commander P.G.T.Beauregard gave the orders to fire on Fort Sumter.​

Question 27

John Wilkes Booth,who assassinated President Lincoln,had been a slave owner. ​

Question 28

Andrew Stephens was President of theConfederacy.​

Question 29

Lincoln's early effort to negotiate a peace in December 1863 included all of the following terms except ​

A)Return of all property and slaves to those who pledged a loyalty oath to the Union
B)Southern states could form new state governments once 10 percent of the voters in 1860 pledged their loyalty to the Union
C)​Former Confederate leaders were not included in this offer
D)​New education and other programs would assist former slaves

Question 30

The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 ​

A)Freed all slaves 
B)Freed only northern slaves
C)​Freed slaves that lived in the rebel territories
D)​Freed slaves once the war ended

Question 31

Clara Barton nursed Union troops and went on to found the American Red Cross.​

Question 32

Lincoln's position on slavery was ​

A)It should end gradually 
B)Slave holders should be paid for their slaves once they were freed
C)​He hated slavery personally
D)​All of the above

Question 33

The battle at Gettysburg led Lincoln to issue his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.​

Question 34

The Conscription Bureau was established in May 1863 to allow blacks to serve in the Union army.​

Question 35

In attempting to resupply Fort Sumter after South Carolina's secession,Lincoln unintentionally maneuvered the South into firing the first shots of the Civil War.​

Question 36

What great contradiction did the Confederacy face as it waged the war? ​

A)Its decision to free slaves within its borders
B)The need to create a central government
C)​The decision to finance the war by printing paper currency
D)​The use of conscription to staff its army

Question 37

Robert E.Lee was chosen to command the Confederate army based on his experience in the Mexican War. ​

Question 38

The Republican Party chose a Tennessee Democrat as Lincoln's vice-presidential running mate during the 1864election.​

Question 39

Lincoln's called for a "new birth of freedom" in the Gettysburg Address.​

Question 40

Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the battlefront during the Civil War? ​

A)The war had the highest casualty rates of any American war 
B)New technologies of warfare made the battles especially bloody
C)​More soldiers died in battle than from diseases
D)​More southern soldiers died during the war than northern soldiers

Question 41

The Union and Confederacy both eagerly enlisted African Americans as soldiers.​

Question 42

Tennessee was the second state to secede from the Union.​

Question 43

Missouri and Kentucky were Confederate states.​

Question 44

Union men who were drafted could pay $300 to have someone else serve for them.​

Question 45

In the North,men of all classes and ethnicities enlisted in the military.​

Question 46

The Wade-Davis bill was supported by Abraham Lincoln.​

Question 47

Native American groups in the Oklahoma territory stood against the U.S.during the war.​

Question 48

Britain and France remained neutral during the Civil War because these rival nations did not want to upset the delicate balance of power between themselves.​