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Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic, 3/e

James West Davidson, Historian
William E. Gienapp, Harvard University
Christine Leigh Heyrman, University of Delaware
Mark H. Lytle, Bard College
Michael B. Stoff, University of Texas, Austin

Total War and the Republic (1861-1865)

Multiple Choice


1	At the beginning of the Civil War, which one of the following factors favored the Confederacy?
		A)	the transportation system.
		B)	the manpower pool.
		C)	the fact that the fighting would be on southern soil.
		D)	the South's existing industrial capacity.


2	The Confederacy hoped to gain European recognition because:
		A)	it had slavery.
		B)	it repudiated the Monroe Doctrine.
		C)	cotton was vital to England's economy.
		D)	the Confederacy was a military threat to Europe.


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


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


5	The Emancipation Proclamation applied to slaves:
		A)	in those areas of the South under Union control.
		B)	in those areas of the South under Confederate control.
		C)	in all the southern states.
		D)	of masters who were disloyal.


6	During the Civil War, African-American troops:
		A)	were not allowed to see combat duty
		B)	suffered casualty rates just slightly lower than white troops.
		C)	served in segregated units under the command of white officers.
		D)	were integrated into units in the Regular Army.


7	During the war, women did all the following EXCEPT:
		A)	enter the professions of nursing and teaching.
		B)	take jobs in the government bureaucracy.
		C)	run the farms and plantations.
		D)	run the railroads.


8	The Republican Congress during the Civil War passed economic legislation that included all EXCEPT:a system of nationally chartered banks.
		A)	a system of nationally chartered banks.
		B)	restricting money to hard currency ("specie").
		C)	an increase in tariff duties.
		D)	the country's first income tax.


9	Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus:
		A)	only in the border states.
		B)	throughout the North.
		C)	for all crimes committed during the war.
		D)	from the beginning of the war until September 1862.


10	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.


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


12	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)	meant the capture of the last major Confederate army.
		D)	did not end the fighting in Tennessee.

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