Question 1

Why did the North have to effectively destroy much of the South in order to the win the Civil War?

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Question 2

The wartime South saw

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A)   a significant decline in the production of goods.
B)   almost no black-market commerce.
C)   an increase in the sale of cotton overseas.
D)   numerous bloody slave revolts.
E)   women forced out of the public sphere.F) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 3

The Confiscation Act of 1861

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A)   gave Union troops the authority to seize Confederate property.
B)   abolished slavery in the District of Columbia and the western territories.
C)   saw the Confederate government claim the right to seize free blacks in the South.
D)   declared that slaves used by Confederate states in the war effort were free.
E)   empowered banks in the Union to freeze the financial assets of all slaveholders.F) B) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 4

The Confederate constitution explicitly acknowledged the sovereignty of individual states and the right of secession.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

How did Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis compare as presidents and military commanders?

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Question 6

Why might the Civil War be described as the first "modern war"?

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Question 7

President Buchanan did not believe that a state had the legal right to secede from the Union.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

As the Battle of Vicksburg was ending,another major battle was taking place in

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A)   Shiloh.
B)   Gettysburg.
C)   Chickamauga.
D)   Antietam.
E)   Atlanta.F) C) and D)
G) All of the above

Question 9

The Battle of Gettysburg

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A)  was a Union victory,thanks to Meade having found a copy of Lee's orders.
B)  represented the last time Confederate forces seriously threatened Union territory.
C)  saw Union General George Meade lose nearly a third of his army.
D)  saw Union General George Meade clearly be more aggressive than Robert E.Lee.
E)  saw Robert E.Lee poised for victory after his attack on Cemetery Ridge.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 10

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do,and how did it alter the Civil War?

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Question 11

Why was the death toll in the Civil War so tremendous?

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Question 12

During the Civil War,as a result of new technology in weapons,

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A)   infantry troops began to fight standing in line formations.
B)   soldiers were forced to carry rudimentary gas masks.
C)   the Gatling gun became the primary combat weapon.
D)   organized infantry did not fight in formation.
E)   battlefields became more organized.F) A) and C)
G) C) and E)

Question 13

Robert E.Lee surrendered to Ulysses S.Grant at Appomattox Court House after

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A)  President Jefferson Davis announced the Confederate government was defeated.
B)  President Lincoln met President Davis.
C)  President Jefferson Davis was captured by Union forces.
D)  President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
E)  Lee recognized the futility of continued fighting.F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 14

Taxes enacted by the United States Congress to help finance the Civil War

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A)   kept the sale of public bonds low.
B)   were vetoed by President Lincoln.
C)   allowed the federal government to avoid incurring significant debt.
D)   were strongly supported by most citizens in the Union.
E)   included a new income tax.F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

Question 15

The Confederate States of America was formed

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A)  after eleven Southern states had seceded.
B)  in a meeting hall in Washington,D.C.
C)  after Texas seceded from the Union.
D)  despite the passage of the Crittenden Compromise.
E)  after Fort Sumter fell to forces from seceding states.F) D) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 16

The North financed the Civil War primarily by borrowing money.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Which of the following federally-chartered corporations did the Union create to build the transcontinental railroad?

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A)   Central Pacific
B)   Union Pacific
C)   Western Pacific and Central Pacific
D)   Western Pacific
E)   Union Pacific and Central PacificF) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 18

Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of Ulysses S.Grant and Robert
E. Lee as military commanders.

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Question 19

In the Emancipation Proclamation,President Abraham Lincoln declared freedom for slaves

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A)   in the slave states that had remained loyal to the Union.
B)   that joined the Union military.
C)   throughout all states that existed as part of the United States prior to the Civil War.
D)   in the parts of the Confederacy still in rebellion.
E)   in the parts of the Confederacy already under Union control.F) B) and D)
G) C) and E)

Question 20

The Crittenden Compromise was essentially acceptable to Lincoln and the Republicans.

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A) True 
 B)False

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