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What did Lincoln promise to the South if they simply returned to the Union? |
They would be allowed to keep their slaves. |
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To cover the expenses of the Civil War, the Union did all except |
demand all payments in gold. |
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Which of the following provided a decisive advantage for the South over the North? |
Better military leaders |
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"Find out where your enemy is, get to him as soon as you can, and strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on" best describes the war making policy of |
Ulysses Grant. |
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The Emancipation Proclamation |
abolished slavery in the conquered part of the South. |
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Why did Lincoln chose to abolish slavery in 1862? |
Union defeats crushed morale and he wanted to use the issue to rebuild it. |
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Part of the success in prolonging the Civil War was the practice of |
the South engaging only in defensive warfare 90 percent of the time. |
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What percentage of the Northern forces was foreign born during the Civil War? |
25 percent |
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After the Battle of Vicksburg |
the Union controlled the Mississippi. |
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Which of the following was not approved by Congress during the Civil War |
Construction of a canal between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans |
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African Americans after the Civil war tended to compare their trials with |
the biblical Exodus. |
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To help keep the economy afloat while a vast percentage of Northern men were fighting the Civil War, the __________ was passed to encourage the hiring of immigrants. |
Contract Labor Act |
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The general associated with the futile charge at Gettysburg was |
Pickett |
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Why did the North enact a blockade on the Confederacy during the Civil War |
To deny them the imports they needed to survive |
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This person claimed that the Civil War advanced by 50 years the progress of women in gaining social and economic equality |
Clara Barton |
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What was Grant’s goal in capturing Petersburg? |
To capture the railroad hub located there |
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Received the Congressional Medal of Honor for her service in the Civil War as a result of being captured and imprisoned as a spy. |
Mary Edwards Walker |
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Which of the following was not a goal of the Confederacy in the Civil War? |
Conquer the South |
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Which of the following did not occur as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation? |
Large slave areas of Louisiana tried to secede from the Confederacy and join the Union. |
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The Civil War spurred the growth of all of the following except |
civil rights for women |
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What was one area in which the South led the North during the Civil War? |
Cotton production |
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Because of the economic distress of the Confederacy |
rapid inflation occurred |
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The Battle of Gettysburg |
was the last time the Confederacy would invade the North. |
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Because of the Battle of Antietam |
Lincoln was able to issue the Emancipation Proclamation |
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Southerners during the Civil War liked to compare themselves to |
those fighting the redcoats during the American Revolution. |
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