Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02, Question 1
1) In late 1861 Jefferson Davis sent ambassadors to gain recognition from what two nations?
*a. England and France Feedback: Correct
b. Spain and England Feedback:
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c. France and the Netherlands Feedback:
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d. Spain and the Netherlands Feedback: Page reference: 48
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Title: Chapter 02, Question 2
2) By early 1862 the rupture of the Mason-Slidell affair ________ relations between Britain and the Union.
a. had embittered Feedback:
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*b. appeared to have done no lasting damage to Feedback: Correct
c. had only improved Feedback:
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d. was still threatening Feedback: Page reference: 51
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Title: Chapter 02, Question 3
3) Unlike Union enlistments Confederate enlistment periods were initially for ________.
*a. one year Feedback: Correct
b. six months Feedback: Page reference: 52
c. three months Feedback: Page reference: 52
d. two years Feedback: Page reference: 52
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Title: Chapter 02, Question 4
4) Which of these was introduced in 1862 by the Confederacy for the first time in American history?
a. state-level conscription Feedback:
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b. an income tax Feedback:
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*c. a national draft
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d. a law prohibiting political dissent
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Title: Chapter 02, Question 5
5) Which of these men was made general-in-chief of the Union armies in 1862.
*a. George McClellan
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b. Ambrose Burnside Feedback:
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c. Winfield Scott
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d. Ulysses Grant Feedback: Page reference: 53
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02, Question 6
6) Looking at Map 2.1, which of these was the culmination and key goal of the Union attacks on Confederate coastal defense?
*a. New Orleans
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b. Pensacola
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c. Port Royal Feedback:
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d. Charleston Feedback: Page reference: 54
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02, Question 7
7) Which of these describe McClellan's strategy early in 1862?
*a. a decisive strike against Virginia to end the war quickly
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b. strengthening the naval blockade to starve the Confederacy Feedback: Page reference: 55
c. a war of attrition moving through Kentucky to control the Mississippi Feedback: Page reference: 55
d. pursuing the anaconda plan
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Title: Chapter 02, Question 8
8) McClellan's response to General War Order No. 1 had the effect of ________ relations between the president and McClellan.
*a. worsening
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b. turning
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c. inflaming Feedback:
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d. ending Feedback: Page reference: 56
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02, Question 9
9) The image "East Tennessee Unionism" fed Northerners' firmly held belief that ________ in the Confederacy.
a. poor whites supported the Slave Power Feedback:
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b. abolition would be warmly welcomed Feedback:
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c. the war would last longer than expected Feedback:
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*d. pro-Union feeling was strong Feedback: Correct
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Title: Chapter 02, Question 10
10) The Confederacy experienced two important checks in 1862 in what region?
a. the Mississippi Feedback:
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*b. the west Feedback: Correct
c. Virginia Feedback:
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d. the Atlantic Feedback: Page reference: 58
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02, Question 11
11) Which of these were the key to the Union victory on the second day at Shiloh?
a. cavalry Feedback:
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b. infantry Feedback: Page reference: 60
*c. ships Feedback: Correct
d. reinforcements Feedback: Page reference: 60
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02, Question 12
12) By the end of the first day of fighting, the Confederates felt their position was ________.
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*a. very strong Feedback: Correct
b. weakening Feedback:
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c. holding Feedback:
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d. desperate Feedback: Page reference: 61
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02, Question 13
13) The fighting at Shiloh ________ impressions of the brutality of Civil War fighting established at First Bull Run.
a. mitigated
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b. ended Feedback:
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c. continued Feedback:
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*d. deepened Feedback: Correct
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Title: Chapter 02, Question 14
14) The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) contributed to the Union's ________.
a. supply and medical logistics
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*b. armaments Feedback: Correct
c. communications Feedback:
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d. military strategy Feedback: Page reference: 63
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02, Question 15
15) It is most accurate to say that by the 1860s women's work in the medical fields was ________.
a. a novelty Feedback: Page reference: 64
b. banned Feedback:
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*c. controversial Feedback: Correct
d. commonplace Feedback: Page reference: 64
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Title: Chapter 02, Question 16
16) Compared to the USSC medical care in the Confederacy was ________.
*a. decentralized Feedback: Correct
b. nonexistent Feedback:
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c. more professionalized Feedback:
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d. similarly organized Feedback: Page reference: 66
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Title: Chapter 02, Question 17
17) Julia Ward Howe's new lyrics to "John Brown's Body" gave the tune a more ________ tone.
a. abolitionist
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b. partisan Feedback: Page reference: 67
*c. patriotic Feedback: Correct
d. conciliatory Feedback: Page reference: 67
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02, Question 18
18) The image "Songs of War" was the work of what prominent American artist?
a. Julia Ward Howe Feedback:
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b. Frederick Remington Feedback: Page reference: 68
*c. Winslow Homer Feedback: Correct
d. Albert Bierstadt Feedback: Page reference: 68
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02, Question 19
19) As in other areas of popular culture the theme of ________ was dominant in war-era songs.
a. security Feedback: Page reference: 69
*b. deliverance Feedback: Correct
c. vengeance Feedback: Page reference: 69
d. freedom
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Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02, Question 20
20) The Confederates perpetuated the myth that Maryland was ________.
a. on the brink of joining the Confederacy Feedback:
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b. covertly part of the Confederacy Feedback:
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c. truly part of the Confederacy Feedback:
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*d. forced into staying in the Union Feedback: Correct
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02, Question 21
21) In 1862 slavery was abolished ________.
*a. in Washington, D.C. Feedback: Correct
b. in the Union Feedback:
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c. in border and Confederate states Feedback:
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d. in Confederate states Feedback: Page reference: 71
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02, Question 22
22) The proposed compensated emancipation of 1862 was joined with what plan for former slaves?
a. supported employment Feedback:
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b. land grants Feedback: Page reference: 71
*c. sponsored emigration Feedback: Correct
d. resettlement Feedback: Page reference: 71
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02, Question 23
23) Which of these explains the generally positive reaction to Lincoln's March message concerning emancipation in March 1862?
*a. Lincoln's plan for emancipation was moderate. Feedback: Correct
b. Lincoln's reelection had given him a strong mandate. Feedback:
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c. The progress of the war caused Northerners to rally to the president.
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d. Support for abolition had grown during the first years of the war.
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Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02, Question 24
24) Together, Lincoln's March 1862 message to Congress and the end of slavery in Washington, D.C. were generally received ________ in the Union.
a. as a disaster
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b. with riots
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c. as the Union's salvation
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*d. with guarded optimism
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Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 02, Question 25
25) George Stephens came to prominence as an influential black ________.
a. military leader
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b. politician
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c. doctor
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*d. war correspondent
Feedback: Correct
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