History

At the beginning of the Civil War, which one of the following factors favored the Confederacy?

A) the transportation system.
B) the fact that the fighting would be on southern soil.
C) the manpower pool.
D) the South's existing industrial capacity.

The Confederacy hoped to gain European recognition because:

A) the Confederacy was a military threat to Europe.
B) it repudiated the Monroe Doctrine.
C) cotton was vital to England's economy.
D) it had slavery.

The battle at Antietam was significant for all the following reasons EXCEPT:

A) it provided the occasion for Lincoln to announce the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
B) it was the bloodiest one-day battle in the history of American warfare.
C) it repulsed a Confederate invasion of the North.
D) it demonstrated McClellan had the qualities necessary to win the war.

The Crittenden Resolution:

A) called for negotiations with the Confederacy to end the war.
B) declared that the war was being fought to free the slaves.
C) declared that the war was being fought to save the Union.
D) proclaimed runaway slaves to be contraband.

The Emancipation Proclamation applied to slaves:

A) in those areas of the South under Confederate control.
B) in all the southern states.
C) in those areas of the South under Union control.
D) of masters who were disloyal.

During the Civil War, African-American troops:

A) were not allowed to see combat duty.
B) served in segregated units under the command of white officers.
C) were integrated into units in the Regular Army.
D) suffered casualty rates just slightly lower than white troops.

During the war, women did all the following EXCEPT:

A) run the railroads.
B) run the farms and plantations.
C) enter the professions of nursing and teaching.
D) take jobs in the government bureaucracy.

The Republican Congress during the Civil War passed economic legislation that included all EXCEPT:

A) an increase in tariff duties.
B) a system of nationally chartered banks.
C) restricting money to hard currency ("specie").
D) the country's first income tax.

Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus:

A) from the beginning of the war until September 1862.
B) for all crimes committed during the war.
C) only in the border states.
D) throughout the North.

The Confederacy was like the North in each of the following ways EXCEPT:

A) each president, despite little military background, ably directed the war effort.
B) each government relied initially on volunteer soldiers, but later had to institute a draft that provoked deep hostility.
C) each government financed the war through taxes and issuing paper money.
D) the demands of war increased the power of the central government and accelerated industrialization on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line.

During the Civil War:

A) Union troops suffered few disease-related deaths.
B) about one-third of the casualties occurred because of diseases.
C) military discipline ensured that the soldiers enjoyed good health.
D) twice as many troops died from diseases than from battle wounds.

The surrender of Robert E. Lee:

A) brought an almost immediate end to all fighting in the Civil War.
B) resulted in his arrest and a 25-year prison term for treason.
C) did not end the fighting in Tennessee.
D) meant the capture of the last major Confederate army.