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32 Cards in this Set
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How did the Battle of Bull Run affect the beginning of the Civil War? |
It gave the South an exaggerated sense of confidence
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Union general George McClellan is best remembered for his |
Slowness to act |
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The outcome of the Peninsula Campaign to take Richmond in 1862 is significant because it |
prolonged the war and began to attach slavery to the cause |
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What was NOT apart of Union military strategy against the South? |
Grind the Confederacy to dust by sending troops through Maryland and Virginia |
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The battle at Antietam is considered a decisive moment in the Civil War for many reasons EXCEPT that |
it marked the advent of iron-clad ships |
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The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 |
was a symbolic statement of justice |
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How did Southerners manage their slave population during the Civil War? |
They established home guards to protect against insurrection and flight. |
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The 1863 Battle of Gettysburg |
was considered the "high tide of the Confederacy." |
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Which of these battles proved to be General Grant's greatest showing in the war? |
Vicksburg |
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General William Tecumseh Sherman is most remembered for his |
march to sea |
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Initially in doubt, Lincoln's reelection was ultimately secured as voting day neared in 1864 by |
a series of Union military victories |
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What was the Wilderness Campaign? |
Grant's combat strategy focusing on man-to-man confrontations in the Virginia countryside |
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Before the war actually ended, initial attempts for a negotiated peace broke down because |
the South wanted to retain its Independence |
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What was NOT an outcome of the Civil War? |
Relationships with Britain and France were stressed. |
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Many parties opposed the Lincoln administration during the Civil War and the election of 1864 EXCEPT: |
the Union party |
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The Gettysburg Address and the Declaration of Independence followed a similar line of reasoning because both |
relied on the idea that all men are created equal. |
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Slaves responded to emancipation during the war years in many ways EXCEPT by: |
marrying former mistresses |
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Who were the Exodusters? |
A mass migration of blacks from various Southern states in the late 1870s into Kansas |
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The Freedmen's Bureau |
was established by Congress to provide food, education, and other social services to freedmen. |
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Before becoming president, Andrew Johnson had been a |
champion of poor farmers |
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What was NOT a feature of Presidential Reconstruction of the Union? |
The 50 percent Reconstruction plan |
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The Black Codes |
restrictive Southern statutes passed to regulate newly freed slaves |
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What single outcome of the war had Northern congressmen wondering who really won? |
The end of the three-fifths compromise |
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To secure the gains of the 1866 Civil Rights Bill, Congress sought to pass the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution with many terms EXCEPT: |
the right to vote |
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What was the central difference between radical and moderate Republican notions of Reconstruction? |
Moderates wanted to limit federal intervention in the South |
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Many things were tenets of Reconstruction as adopted by Congress EXCEPT |
state-sponsored education and land grants to former slaves |
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The problem of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution was that it |
did not enfranchise women |
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Who were the so-called scalawags and carpetbaggers? |
Scalawags were pro-Union Southerners who participated in radical Reconstruction; carpetbaggers were Northerners who moved south seeking profit and power. |
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White southerners resisted the increased empowerment of blacks in many ways EXCEPT through |
the enactment of the Force Acts of 1870 and 1871 |
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What was the justification for impeachment of President Andrew Johnson? |
He allegedly violated the Tenure of Office Act |
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Which of the following illustrates an accurate cause-and-effect relationship? |
Former Confederates regain political power; radical Republicans exert more influence over Reconstruction |
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The initial success of the Reconstruction Act, dividing the South into military districts, faded because |
Democrats eventually regained power, leading to an era of "Redemption" |
