Question 1

Approximately how many Union and Confederate soldiers died during the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

620,000

Question 2

Among the Confederacy's advantages during the Civil War was:

Accepted Answer

its large size, which made it more difficult for the Union to conquer.

Question 3

Frederick Douglass viewed the abolition of slavery as:

Accepted Answer

not the end of the nation's work, but the beginning of a new phase of it.

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

the Union army, despite high casualties, pressed forward in its campaign.

Question 5

Monitor and Merrimac were:

Accepted Answer

ironclad ships.

Question 6

The example of German immigrant Marcus Spiegel demonstrated that:

Accepted Answer

the views of average Americans evolved considerably during the course of the Civil War.

Question 7

King Cotton diplomacy led Great Britain to:

Accepted Answer

find new supplies of cotton outside the South.

Question 8

The Union's manpower advantage over the Confederacy:

Accepted Answer

proved essential for the success of Grant's attrition strategy.

Question 9

During the Civil War, black soldiers:

Accepted Answer

helped inspire Republicans to believe that emancipation also demanded equal rights before the law.

Question 10

A major part of the Anaconda Plan was:

Accepted Answer

a naval blockade of the South.

Question 11

True or false, He proposed a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery immediately.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 12

The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863:

Accepted Answer

did not apply to the border slave states that had not seceded.

Question 13

Rehearsals for reconstruction during the Civil War demonstrated that:

Accepted Answer

the main aspiration of former slaves was the ownership of their own land.

Question 14

Lincoln spoke of a new birth of freedom for the nation in his:

Accepted Answer

Gettysburg Address.

Question 15

During the Civil War, northern white women:

Accepted Answer

began obtaining jobs as government clerks.

Question 16

True or false, They convinced Lincoln to delay issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

Lincoln's vision during the Civil War:

Accepted Answer

was that the American nation embodied a set of universal ideals rooted in political democracy and human freedom.

Question 18

The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer regiment is best known as:

Accepted Answer

a regiment of free blacks who charged Fort Wagner, South Carolina.

Question 19

How was Ulysses Grant received in Europe during his tour in the 1870s?

Accepted Answer

He was praised as a Hero of Freedom.

Question 20

Lincoln was hesitant to support abolition early in the war because he:

Accepted Answer

feared losing the support of the slaveholding border states within the Union.

Question 21

Rehearsals for reconstruction during the Civil War demonstrated that:

Accepted Answer

the main aspiration of former slaves was the ownership of their own land.

Question 22

Monitor and Merrimac were:

Accepted Answer

ironclad ships.

Question 23

Lincoln's vision during the Civil War:

Accepted Answer

was that the American nation embodied a set of universal ideals rooted in political democracy and human freedom.

Question 24

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

Accepted Answer

There should be at least limited black suffrage.

Question 25

During the Civil War, northern white women:

Accepted Answer

began obtaining jobs as government clerks.

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