hist 1301- chp 14 – Flashcards
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What did Frederick Douglass encourage African Americans in the North to do as part of the war effort after 1863?
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enlist in the United States Army
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Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
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Second Confiscation Act; enlistment of blacks as Union soldiers; congressional passage of Thirteenth Amendment
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Which of the following best describes Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?
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relatively lenient
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Northerners opposed to the Union cause were known as:
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Copperheads.
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The commander of the Army of Northern Virginia was:
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Robert E. Lee.
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During the Civil War, the term "contraband camps" was used to refer to:
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camps of fugitive slaves.
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Abraham Lincoln's January 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation:
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freed some slaves, but exempted those in areas under Union control.
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Which of the following was a Confederate advantage in fighting the Civil War?
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The leading southern commander, General Robert E. Lee, was a brilliant battlefield tactician and served as head of the Confederate States Army throughout the entire war.
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General Robert E. Lee launched his September 1862 invasion into Maryland with a variety of goals in mind, including all of the following except:
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capturing Yorktown and possibly Baltimore.
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Which of the following was not a significant factor behind the Union's defeat of the Confederacy?
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a growing conviction on the part of Confederate soldiers that slavery was wrong
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Which of the following was not a significant wartime development?
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The harder things went for the Confederacy, the more unified its citizens became.
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Which is not true of the battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862?
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General McClellan and the Army of the Potomac followed up their victory at Antietam with a rapid "lightning strike" into the South, both against General Robert E. Lee's forces and, subsequently, against the City of Richmond.
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What military action started the American Civil War?
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The Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter.
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At Vicksburg in July 1863:
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the Union, under U.S. Grant's leadership, was victorious.
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Which was not true of black soldiers during the Civil War?
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They fought mostly for the North, but tens of thousands also fought for the South.
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By 1862, how many states composed the Confederate States of America?
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eleven
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Population in the North was 22 million in 1860, while the white population of the South in 1860 was:
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5.8 million.
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In what 1863 speech did Lincoln assert that the sacrifices of the Union soldiers would ensure that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth"?
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Gettysburg Address
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Rose Greenhow
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was a Confederate spy in Washington, D.C.
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The Homestead Act:
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took effect on January 1, 1863 and offered 160 acres of free public land to settlers in the West.
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At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia in December 1862:
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northern forces suffered one of their worst defeats of the war.
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The Civil War is sometimes called "the first modern war" because it used weapons and other technological advances of the industrial revolution. Which of the following was not one of these advances?
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radio
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Which of the following was the Gettysburg Address specifically designed to communicate?
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national reunion
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A "Civil War" is:
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a war between political factions or regions within the same country.
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Which is not true of the death toll in the Civil War?
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The number of southerners killed in the war far exceeded the number of northerners killed.
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Which of the following groups was not a major target of the New York City draft riots?
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Irish immigrants
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Which of the following was not a source of growing disaffection among whites on the Confederate homefront?
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the recruitment of slaves to serve as Confederate army officers
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Which of the following was not a major thrust of expanded federal activity during the war?
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protection of labor's right to organize
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in December 1865:
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abolished slavery throughout the Union.
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Which of the following describes the Battle of Antietam?
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the bloodiest battle of the war occurred.
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George E. Pickett's crack division marched across an open field toward Union forces into withering gunfire in July 1863 at:
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Gettysburg.
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Of the more than 180,000 black men who served in the Union Army during the Civil War, how many died of disease, of wounds, or in battle?
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a third
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Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation immediately following:
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the battle of Antietam.
