Gml 14

Front 1

What did Frederick Douglass encourage African Americans in the North to do as part of the war effort after 1863?

Back 1

enlist in the United States Army

Front 2

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

Back 2

Second Confiscation Act; enlistment of blacks as Union soldiers; congressional passage of Thirteenth Amendment

Front 3

Which of the following best describes Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction?

Back 3

relatively lenient

Front 4

Northerners opposed to the Union cause were known as:

Back 4

Copperheads.

Front 5

The commander of the Army of Northern Virginia was:

Back 5

Robert E. Lee.

Front 6

During the Civil War, the term “contraband camps” was used to refer to:

Back 6

camps of fugitive slaves.

Front 7

Abraham Lincoln’s January 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation:

Back 7

freed some slaves, but exempted those in areas under Union control.

Front 8

Which of the following was a Confederate advantage in fighting the Civil War?

Back 8

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.

Front 9

General Robert E. Lee launched his September 1862 invasion into Maryland with a variety of goals in mind, including all of the following except:

Back 9

capturing Yorktown and possibly Baltimore.

Front 10

Which of the following was not a significant factor behind the Union’s defeat of the Confederacy?

Back 10

a growing conviction on the part of Confederate soldiers that slavery was wrong

Front 11

Which of the following was not a significant wartime development?

Back 11

The harder things went for the Confederacy, the more unified its citizens became.

Front 12

Which is not true of the battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862?

Back 12

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.

Front 13

What military action started the American Civil War?

Back 13

The Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter.

Front 14

At Vicksburg in July 1863:

Back 14

the Union, under U.S. Grant’s leadership, was victorious.

Front 15

Which was not true of black soldiers during the Civil War?

Back 15

They fought mostly for the North, but tens of thousands also fought for the South.

Front 16

By 1862, how many states composed the Confederate States of America?

Back 16

eleven

Front 17

Population in the North was 22 million in 1860, while the white population of the South in 1860 was:

Back 17

5.8 million.

Front 18

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”?

Back 18

Gettysburg Address

Front 19

Rose Greenhow

Back 19

was a Confederate spy in Washington, D.C.

Front 20

The Homestead Act:

Back 20

took effect on January 1, 1863 and offered 160 acres of free public land to settlers in the West.

Front 21

At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia in December 1862:

Back 21

northern forces suffered one of their worst defeats of the war.

Front 22

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?

Back 22

radio

Front 23

Which of the following was the Gettysburg Address specifically designed to communicate?

Back 23

national reunion

Front 24

A “Civil War” is:

Back 24

a war between political factions or regions within the same country.

Front 25

Which is not true of the death toll in the Civil War?

Back 25

The number of southerners killed in the war far exceeded the number of northerners killed.

Front 26

Which of the following groups was not a major target of the New York City draft riots?

Back 26

Irish immigrants

Front 27

Which of the following was not a source of growing disaffection among whites on the Confederate homefront?

Back 27

the recruitment of slaves to serve as Confederate army officers

Front 28

Which of the following was not a major thrust of expanded federal activity during the war?

Back 28

protection of labor’s right to organize

Front 29

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in December 1865:

Back 29

abolished slavery throughout the Union.

Front 30

Which of the following describes the Battle of Antietam?

Back 30

the bloodiest battle of the war occurred.

Front 31

George E. Pickett’s crack division marched across an open field toward Union forces into withering gunfire in July 1863 at:

Back 31

Gettysburg.

Front 32

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?

Back 32

a third

Front 33

Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation immediately following:

Back 33

the battle of Antietam.