APUSH ch. 21 (A)

At the beginning fo the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln favored quick military action to show:

the folly of secession.

Lincoln hoped that a Union victory at Bull Run would:

lead to the capture of the Confederate capital at Richmond.

The South’s victory at Bull Run in 1861:

reduced enlistments in the south’s army.

In the Civil War, the South__ the Battle of Bull Run.

won

The Union’s defeat in battle at Bull Run in 1861 was better than a victory because:

the defeat caused Northerners to face up to the reality of a long, difficult war.

George Be. McClellan is best described as:

cautious.

After assuming comand of the Army of the Potomac, General George McClellan made the mistake of:

consistently believing that the enemy outnumbered him.

As a reult of the Union loss in the Peninsula Campaign:

Lincoln began to draft the Emancipation Proclamation.

AFter the Peninsula Campaign, Union strategy included all of the following:

cutting the Confederacy in half; marching through Georgia and then the Carolinas; blockading the Confederacy’s coastline; and liberating the slaves.

As a result of the Confederate victory in the Peninsula Campaign:

the Union turned to a strategy of total war.

The final Union was strategy included all the following components:

a naval blockade; undermining the Confederate economy; seizing control of the Mississippi River; and capturing Richmond.

Britain did not protest too loudly agains the Union naval blockade of the Confederacy because:

Britain might want to use a similar blockade in a future war.

The most alarming Confederate threat to the Union blockade came from:

the ironclad Merrimack.

The Confederate blockade runner, the Merrimack was:

destroyed by Confederate soldiers.

After halting Lee’s troops at Antietam, General George McClellan was:

removed from his field command.

One of the key developments enabling the Union to stop the Confederate thrust into the North at Antietam was:

the Union’s discovery of Robert E. Lee’s battle plans.

The two major battles of the Civil War fougt on Union soil were:

Gettysburg and Antietam.

The Battle of Antietam was particularly critical becaus it probably prevented:

intervention by Britain and France on behalf of the Confederacy.

The North’s victory at Antietam allowed President Lincoln to:

issure the Emancipation Proclamation.

Slavery was legally abolished in the United States by the:

13th Amendment.

The Emancipation proclamation had the effect of strengthening the ____ and ____ of the Union.

moral cause; diplomatic position.

When it was issued in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation declared free:

only those slaves in states still in rebellion against the United States.

All of the following occurred as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation:

mounting opposition in the North to an abolition war; sharp increases in Union desertions; heavy congressional defeats for Lincoln’s administration; and complaints from abolitionists that it did not go far enough.

During the Civil War blacks were enlisted by the Union army only after:

the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.

African-Americans who fought for the Union ARmy in the Civil War:

served bravely and suffered extremely heavy causalties.

The Confederacy enlisted slaves into their army:

a month before the war ended.

Robert E. Lee decided to invade the North through Pennsylvania in order to:

deliver a decisive blow that would strengthen the Northern peace movement.

The Battle of Gettysburg was significant because:

Union victory meant that te Southern cause was doomed.

The Union victory at Vicksburg was of major importance because:

it reopened the Mississippi River to Northern trade; coupled with the victory at Gettysburg; foreign help for the confederacy was irretrievably lost; it helped to quell Northern peace agitation; and it cut off the supply of cattle and other goods from Texas and Louisiana.

One consequence of General William T. Sherman’s style of warfare was:

a shorter war that saved lives.

The group in the North most dangerous to the Union cause was:

the Northern Peace Democrats.

Clement L. Vallandigham, a Southern sympathizer and vocal opponent of the war was:

derisively labeled a Copperhead.

In the election of 1864, the Republicans joined with the prowar Democrats and founded the:

Union party.

In the 1864 election, Abraham Lincoln’s running mate was:

Andrew Johnson.

In the 1864 election, the Democratic Party nominated _______ to oppose Lincoln’s reelection.

George McClellan.

Lincoln’s victory in the election of 1864 was aided by:

Union military victories and backing from Union soldiers.

The Unions army’s victory in the caputre of Atlanta was probably critical to:

Lincoln’s reelection in 1864.

General Ulysses S. Grant’s basic strategy in the Civil WAr involved:

assailing the enemy’s armies simultaneously and directly.

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was:

a calamity for the South.

The supreme test of American democracy in the 19th century was:

the Civil War.

The Civil WAr resulted in the following:

expanded federal powers of taxation; the end of nullification and secession; the creation of the first federal social welfare agency; and the end of slavery.

Among the casualties of the Civil War were:

black slavery: extreme states’ rights; and over a million men dead or wounded.