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President Lincoln hesitated in freeing the slaves during the Civil War because
A) he believed that it was beyond his power to interfere with property rights
B) he did not believe the two races could co-exist peaceably
C) he had pledged not to interfere with slavery where it existed during the 1860
campaign
D) he needed the support of the Border States
E) all of the above - ANSWER E.
The Emancipation Proclamation
A) immediately freed all slaves
B) only freed slaves in the border states
C) limited the executive's power of confiscation
D) was well received by all northerners
E) shifted northern war aims to a moral cause - ANSWER E.
Conscription was
A) unnecessary during the Civil War.
B) already in place when the Civil War began.
C) possible in the Union but constitutionally prohibited in the Confederacy.
D) instituted first in the Confederacy but used in both the Union and Confederate
governments. - ANSWER D.
Copperheads were
A) northern merchants who sympathized with the South
B) northern Democrats who protested against the "unjust war"
C) southern abolitionists
D) British nationals who secretly assisted the Confederates
E) Republicans who wished for a permanent split of North and South - ANSWER B.
All of the following are accurate descriptives of Lincoln's presidency EXCEPT
A) Lincoln initially sought to preserve the union and later turned to ending slavery
because of military, political, and economic pressures
B) Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus and other civil liberties during the
conflict
C) Lincoln applied treaty law to his interpretation of the Constitution but raised an army
against the South to end slavery
D) Lincoln supported a strong federal government and Clay's American System
E) Lincoln struggled to find a military commander who would fight to defeat the south -
ANSWER C.
,The Southern government's ability to defeat the U.S. government and military was
mostly weakened by
A) a president, Jefferson Davis, who catered to public opinion and refused to alienate
state governors
B) the constant threat of slave rebellion
C) the high rate of desertion with which the Confederate army struggled
D) unstable and poor military leadership and low morale
E) the concept of states' rights that the Confederacy professed. - ANSWER E.
Arrange the following in chronological order (A) Battle of Bull Run; (B) Battle of
Gettysburg; (C) Lee's surrender at Appomattox; (D) the Battle of Antietam.
A) B, C, A, D
B) D, B, C, A
C) C, A, D, B
D) A, B, D, C
E) A, D, B, C - ANSWER E.
The Battle at Antietam was particularly critical because it
A) inflated an already overconfident southern army
B) ended Lee's plan of invading the North
C) delayed Lincoln's plan to announce the Emancipation Proclamation
D) ensured the reelection of Abraham Lincoln
E) prevented British and French intervention on behalf of the Confederacy - ANSWER
E.
Who was exempted from conscription during the Civil War?
A) northerners who paid the government a fee
B) all white southerners
C) southerners who could not afford the $300 conscription fee
D) southerners who sent their slaves to fight as substitutes
E) munitions' factory workers in the north - ANSWER A.
Which group of battles is correctly identified as Union or Confederate victories?
A) Confederate victories: Chancellorsville, Chickamauga, and Antietam
B) Union victories: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg
C) Confederate victories: Shiloh, New Orleans, and Fredericksburg
D) Union victories: Vicksburg, Shiloh, and Chickamauga
E) none of the above - ANSWER B.
The Civil War was a modern war for all the following reasons EXCEPT
A) Rifling and lever action guns made for more accurate and more speedy firing
B) Photography exposed the average American to the carnage of war
C) The Confederacy used submarines were used with some limited effect
D) There was a clear understanding of germ theory which decreased the number of
deaths due to disease
,E) The gatling gun was used predominantly by the Union and was a precursor to the
machine gun - ANSWER D.
Which of the following statements about women in the Civil War is correct?
A) Women were not allowed to enter army camps to nurse soldiers
B) Women replaced draftees in many of the industrial jobs in the North
C) Loyal Unionist women were allowed to vote and run for political office
D) Northern missionary and freedmen's aid societies refused to use women volunteers
E) All of the above are true. - ANSWER B.
The Supreme Court ruled in Ex Parte Milligan
A) that civilians could not be tried by military tribunals when the civil courts were open
B) Lincoln had no constitutional right to free slaves in the Confederacy
C) the Union had no right to confiscate the property of rebel leaders
D) Congress rather than the president had the right to direct reconstruction of the South
E) the blockade had no legal standing because it was not completely effective -
ANSWER A.
How did the Union and Confederate governments compare in their handing of dissent?
A) Because both governments originated from the same political tradition, they both
viewed dissent the same way
B) Abraham Lincoln was far less hesitant about imposing martial law and suspending
the fundamental right of habeas corpus than was Jefferson Davis
C) Compared with Jefferson Davis, Lincoln had greater faith in democracy and therefore
thought that dissent was a beneficial part of the political process
D) Because of the Confederacy's belief in states' rights, dissent was expected and
encouraged
E) The Confederate government was prepared to act swiftly and harshly to stamp out
dissent, which it equated with treason - ANSWER B.
President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation for all of the following reasons
EXCEPT
A) the desire to injure the Confederacy, threaten its property, heighten its dread, sap its
morale, and hasten its demise
B) the need to gain the support of European liberals who wanted a crusade against
slavery
C) his acceptance of the Radicals' conviction that the constitutional protection of
property rights was, under the circumstances, no longer relevant
D) his realization that he needed to take advantage of the Union victory of Antietam
E) his intention to steal the political initiative from the Radical Republicans in Congress -
ANSWER C.
Which of the following describes the experience of black soldiers in the Union army?
A) They were more likely than whites to be assigned fatigue duty
B) They were usually treated as prisoners of war when captured by Confederate troops
C) They comprised nearly 1/2 of the Union army by the end of the war
, D) From the start, Congress mandated that black soldiers be paid the same as white
soldiers
E) None of the above - ANSWER A.
Slaves during the Civil War
A) mostly remained loyal to their masters and the South
B) often served as officers in the Union army over other blacks
C) ran to Union lines when they could and worked for or fought for the North
D) were never allowed to enlist as soldiers in either the Union nor the Confederate
armies
E) comprised nearly 1/3 of the Confederate army by the end of the war - ANSWER C.
Clement L. Vallandigham, a Southern sympathizer and vocal opponent of the war, was
derisively called a
A) Carpetbagger
B) Copperhead
C) Contraband
D) Doughface
E) Prince of Jesters - ANSWER B.
"If I could save the Union by freeing all the slaves, I would do it... What I do about
slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union."
The above statement was made by which of the following people?
A) Horace Greeley
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) Stephen Douglas
D) James Buchanan
E) Ulysses S. Grant - ANSWER B.
The Peninsular Campaign (1862) revealed
A) Ulysses S. Grant's determination to destroy Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern
Virginia
B) Henry Halleck's jealousy of Grant's success on the battlefield
C) George McClellan's tentativeness
D) William T. Sherman's application of "Total War"
E) the Confederate resolve to keep New Orleans and Vicksburg from falling under
Union control - ANSWER C.
All of the following were major elements of the Union strategy for victory in the Civil War
EXCEPT
A) gaining full control of the Mississippi River.
B) preventing European powers from entering the conflict.
C) destroying the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
D) impressing ex-slaves into the Union army.
