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The Civil War
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1
Public disaffection in the Confederacy stemmed from the following issues EXCEPT
The draft
impressment
commodity shortages
heavy taxes on the planter class
2
The Thirteenth Amendment
abolished slavery
enacted women's suffrage
enacted Reconstruction
made alcohol consumption and production illegal
3
The simultaneous defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg signaled a turning point in the war
True
False
4
The first significant fight, the Battle of Bull Run, took place in northern VA & ended with the retreat of Confederates
False
True
5
Initially, Abraham Lincoln considered the following options for liberated formerly enslaved people...
Citizenship and immediate emancipation
Partial citizenship, emigration to Haiti, and immediate emancipation
Citizenship, emigration to Haiti, and gradual emancipation
Colonization and gradual emancipation
6
The death toll in the Civil War exceeds the total number of Americans who died in all the nation's other wars
False
True
7
The Union's draft law, which allowed men to provide a substitute or buy their way out of the army, caused social unrest
False
True
8
The effort to mobilize the resources of the Union...
enhanced the power of the federal gov't & a class of capitalists
devastated the North's economy
diminished the power of the federal gov't and capitalism
increased scientific discoveries
9
For many northern women, the war created new career opportunities
False
True
10
The Civil War didn't have much of an impact on western Native Americans
False
True
11
The Homestead Act...
Offered 160 acres of free public land to settlers in the West
Went into effect the same day as the Emancipation Proclamation
All of the above
Was developed by Congress to spur agricultural development
12
Both the North and South's military strategies can be best summarized as the following:
The North initially fought to end slavery; the South fought to extend it
The North adopted a defensive strategy; the South adopted an offensive one
The South relied on man power; the North relied blockades
The South adopted a defesive strategy; the North adopted an offensive one
13
The Emancipation Proclamation...
Liberated all enslaved people in areas under Union control
Only authorized the enrollment of Black soldiers into the Union Army
Liberated all enslaved people
Liberated all enslaved people in areas under Confederate control
14
The American Civil War is often called the first modern war
True
False
15
Under Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy became far less centralized than the Old South
True
False
16
Most of the Union's victories in the first 2 years of the war took place in the East, mainly Manassas and Richmond
True
False
17
The bloodiest battle was...
The Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Gettysburg
The First Battle of Bull Run
The Second Battle of Bull Run
18
For the Union to raise money, the gov't took the following actions EXCEPT
imposed new taxes on the production and consumption of goods
Decreased national debt
printed more than $400 million worth of paper money called greenbacks
enacted the nation's first income tax
