WOTF best describes linclons plan for Reconstruction |
relatively lenient |
The Thirteenth Amendment to the US constitution, ratified in December 1865 |
abolished slavery throughout the Union |
Abraham Lincolns January 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation |
freed some slaves, but exempted those ni areas under Union crontrol |
Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emacipation Proclamation immediately following |
the battle of Antietam |
The commander of the Army of Northern Virginia was |
Robert E. Lee |
Which was not true of black soldiers during the Civil War |
They fought mostly for the North, but tens of thousands also fought for the south |
WOTF was the Gettysburg Address speciffically designed to communicate ? |
the need for national reunion |
General Robert E. Lee launched his September 1862 invasion into Maryland with a variety of goals in mind, including all of the following except |
capturing Yorktown and possibly Baltimore |
The Civil War is sometimes called the first modern war because it used weapons and other technological advances of the industrial revolution. WOTF was not on e of the advances? |
radio |
At the battle of Fredericksbury, Virginia in December 1862 |
northern forces suffered one of their worst defeasts of the war |
At Vicksburg in July 1863 |
the Union, under US Grants leadership was victorious |
In what 1863 speech did Lincoln assert that the sacrifieces of the Union soldiers would ensure that government of the ppl by the ppl for the ppl shall not perish from the earth? |
Gettysburg Address |
Which is not true of the death toll in the Civil War? |
the number of southerners killed in teh war far exceeded the number of northerners killed |
WOTF was not a major thrust of expanded federal activity druing the war |
protection of labors right to organize |
What did Fredrick Douglass African Americans in the North to do as part of the war effort after 1863? |
enlist in teh US Army |
WOTF was a Confederate advantage in fighting the Civil War |
the leading southern commander, General Robert E Lee was a brilliant battlefield tactician and served as head of the Confederate States Army throughout the entire war |
Rose Greenhow |
was a Confederate spy in Washington DC |
During the Civil war the term contraband camps was used to refer to |
camps of fugitive slaves |
A civil war is |
a war between political factions or regions within the same country |
WOTF was not a sources of growing disaffection among whites on hte Confederate homefront |
the recruitment of slaves to serve as Confederate army officers |
population in the North was 22 million in 1860 while the white population of the South in 1860 was |
5.8 million |
WOTF groups was not a major target of the New York City draft riots |
Irish immigrants |
Northerners opposed tothe Union cause were known as |
Copperheads |
Of the more than 180,000 black men who served in teh Union Army during the Civil War, how many died of disease of wounds or in battle |
a third |
Which is not true of the battle of Antietam September 17 1862? |
General McClellan and the Army of Potomac followed up their victory at Antietam with a rapid lightning strike into the South both against General Robert E lees forces and subsequently against the City of Richmond |
The Homestead Act |
took effect on January 1 1863 and offered 160 acres of free public land to settlers in the West |
what military action started the American Civil War? |
The Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter |
WOTF describes the Battle of Antietam |
The bloodiest battle of the war occurred |
George E Picketts crack division marched across an open field toward Union forces into withering gunfire in July 1863 at |
Gettysburg |
WOTF was not a significant factor behind the Unions defeat of the Confederacy |
a growing conviction on the part of Confederate soldiers that slavery was wrong |
WOTF was not a significant wartime development? |
The harder things went for the Confederacy, the more unified its citizens became |
By 1862 how many states composed the Confederate States of America? |
eleven |
WOTF series of events is listed in proper sequence? |
Second Confiscation Act; enlistment of blacks as Union soldiers; congressional passage of Thirteenth Amendment |
The Wade-Davis Bill, introduced in Congree in the summer of 1864, required a majority of white male southerners to pledge support for the Union before Reconstruciton could begin, and guaranteed blacks equality before the law but not the vote |
true |
In March 1865 the month before the Vivil War ended the Confederate Congress authorized teh arming of slaves |
true |
Women provided the chief energy for northern war relief efforts |
true |
The seas island Experiment was an experiement in teh Sea islands of South Carolina |
false |
By making the Union army an agent of emacipation and joining together the goals of Union and abolition the Emancipation Procolamation sounded the eventual death knell of slavery |
true |
The first income tax was enacted under the leadershiop of the Republican Party |
true |
Jefferson Davis president of the Confederacy |
False |
The Emancipation Proclamtion immediately freed all enslaved persons in the United States |
false |
The US army earnestly pursued the enlistment of black soldiers following the Emancipation Proclamation |
true |
Photographs of battlefields, soldiers, war dead, war encampments and so forth carried the war into millions of Americans living rooms |
true |
From his first week in office as president |
false |
George E Picketts division marched across an open field |
false |
More Americans died in the Vivil War than in any other war in US history |
True |
General George B McClellan was notorious for |
false |
Many late nineteenth century captains of industry made their initial fortunes during the Civil War |
True |
There were thirteen state memnbers of the Confederate States of America the same number as stars on the Confederate flag |
false |
Lincolhn waited until after teh Union victory at Gettysburg |
false |
Picketts charge at Gettysburg marked the high tide fo the Condederacy |
true |
Invoking the extraordinary dangers of the moment lincoln called for a suspension of regular elections for the duration of the war |
false |
Black valor on the battle field won over many northerners to a belief in equal rights before the law, regardless of race |
true |
During the Civil war the North instituted a draft but the South never did |
flase |
Black soldiers played a crucial role in winning the Civil war and in defining the wars consequences |
true |
Becasue of the harsh cruelties she witnessed during the war |
false |
Abraham lincoln was a firm supporter of votes for blacks |
false |
Government involvement in the economy was diminished as a consequene of the Civil War |
false |
Over the cources of the war the Union troops had stronger morale but the Confederate troops were better supplied |
false |
During the Civil War Congress made grants for up to 100 million acres to the railroads |
true |