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The Union's manpower advantage over the Confederacy:


A) was short-lived once the Confederacy began using slaves as soldiers.
B) proved essential for the success of Grant's attrition strategy.
C) was rather slight.
D) although substantial, did not matter in determining the war's outcome.
E) existed only because the Union had lower draft requirements than the Confederacy.

F) A) and E)
G) None of the above

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The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863:


A) was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court later that year.
B) did not apply to the border slave states that had not seceded.
C) freed slaves throughout the United States.
D) was very popular with voters associated with the Democratic Party.
E) was cited by Tennessee as the reason it rejoined the Union in 1864.

F) D) and E)
G) A) and B)

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On both sides, the outbreak of war stirred powerful feelings of patriotism.

A) True
B) False

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MATCHING -Elizabeth Van Lew


A) 1864 Democratic presidential candidate
B) challenged Lincoln for the 1864 Republican nomination
C) vice president of the Confederacy
D) American National Red Cross
E) southern spy for the Union
F) president of the Confederacy
G) Radical Republican from Pennsylvania
H) practiced a war of attrition
I) surrendered to General Grant
J) favored a Ten-Percent Plan for Reconstruction
K) teacher on the Sea Islands
L) marched through the South

M) A) and I)
N) H) and I)

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In his last speech, Lincoln said what regarding postwar policy?


A) Democracy demanded that African-Americans should play leading roles in southern politics.
B) Southern whites would never concede defeat, so Reconstruction must be mild.
C) He would defer to Radical Republicans in Congress.
D) There should be at least limited black suffrage.
E) Large southern planters should be made to pay dearly for having caused the war.

F) All of the above
G) A) and E)

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During the Civil War, the term "contraband camps" referred to:


A) camps in which materials such as rifles and gunpowder were kept.
B) camps of southern slaves who had escaped from their masters and entered Union lines.
C) training grounds for the youthful musicians who played to raise the morale of the troops.
D) holding areas for items seized by customs agents for failure to pay tariffs.
E) places near battlefields where the Union army temporarily kept Confederate prisoners.

F) A) and C)
G) D) and E)

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MATCHING -George McClellan


A) 1864 Democratic presidential candidate
B) challenged Lincoln for the 1864 Republican nomination
C) vice president of the Confederacy
D) American National Red Cross
E) southern spy for the Union
F) president of the Confederacy
G) Radical Republican from Pennsylvania
H) practiced a war of attrition
I) surrendered to General Grant
J) favored a Ten-Percent Plan for Reconstruction
K) teacher on the Sea Islands
L) marched through the South

M) F) and J)
N) C) and I)

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"King Cotton diplomacy" led Great Britain to:


A) find new supplies of cotton outside the South.
B) recognize the independence of the Confederate States of America.
C) repudiate the Emancipation Proclamation.
D) use its warships to break the Union blockade.
E) stage multiple raids from Canada into the Upper Northwest.

F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

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All of the following are examples of technological changes that helped to make the Civil War a modern war, EXCEPT for the:


A) rifle.
B) ironclad ship.
C) observation balloon.
D) primitive hand grenade.
E) field telephone.

F) B) and D)
G) B) and C)

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Compare and contrast the leadership abilities of wartime presidents Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. How significant was each man's leadership to the course of the war?

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Which of the following puts these Civil War battles in the proper chronological order, from first to last? I. Antietam III) Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor II) First Bull Run IV) Gettysburg


A) I, III, II, IV
B) II, III, I, IV
C) II, I, IV, III
D) III, IV, I, II
E) IV, II, III, I

F) C) and E)
G) All of the above

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In the May and June 1864 battles in Virginia (between the armies of Grant and Lee) :


A) the Union army was forced to retreat down the peninsula in defeat.
B) Lee's brutality earned him the nickname "the Butcher."
C) the Confederates launched the heroic but unsuccessful Pickett's Charge.
D) the Union army, despite high casualties, pressed forward in its campaign.
E) Grant's men decisively defeated Lee's army, which forced the evacuation of Richmond.

F) A) and D)
G) C) and E)

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Economically, the Civil War led to:


A) a decline in prosperity for North and South alike.
B) the emergence of a nation-state committed to national economic development.
C) a tariff reduction to attract foreign goods to make up for the decline in domestic production.
D) the creation of the Third Bank of the United States, despite opposition from old Jacksonian Democrats.
E) the building of a transcontinental railroad, completely through private financing.

F) C) and E)
G) B) and E)

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Which of the following did NOT cause divisions within the Confederacy?


A) the draft, which allowed southerners to be exempt if they owned a certain number of slaves
B) food shortages, especially as the Union tightened its blockade
C) the heavy taxes on planters, who resented paying the majority of the war's costs
D) the decision of the Confederate Congress to issue paper money
E) the impressment, or seizure, of farm produce to feed soldiers.

F) A) and B)
G) None of the above

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MATCHING -Jefferson Davis


A) 1864 Democratic presidential candidate
B) challenged Lincoln for the 1864 Republican nomination
C) vice president of the Confederacy
D) American National Red Cross
E) southern spy for the Union
F) president of the Confederacy
G) Radical Republican from Pennsylvania
H) practiced a war of attrition
I) surrendered to General Grant
J) favored a Ten-Percent Plan for Reconstruction
K) teacher on the Sea Islands
L) marched through the South

M) F) and H)
N) D) and I)

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Due to Lincoln's announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, Republicans suffered reverses in the 1862 midterm elections.

A) True
B) False

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How did the war affect the economies of the North and of the South?

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Rehearsals for reconstruction during the Civil War demonstrated that:


A) African-Americans were so used to slavery, they would work only when forced to do so.
B) the main aspiration of former slaves was the ownership of their own land.
C) African-Americans were willing to sign contracts forcing them to labor if they were treated more fairly than they had been under slavery.
D) former slaves would not work for wages, only for land.
E) African-Americans had no interest in their political future, only in their economic well-being.

F) A) and E)
G) B) and C)

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Describe the changes in Lincoln's thinking that led to the Civil War being waged as a total war.

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MATCHING -"Negro paradise"


A) escaped slaves
B) deadliest battle of the war
C) Richmond
D) Union not to interfere with slavery
E) surrender of the Confederacy
F) relied on British support
G) Gettysburg
H) a naval blockade
I) freed slaves
J) spectators came with picnic baskets to watch
K) opponents of the war
L) established by Grant

M) B) and K)
N) C) and G)

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