Exam 16: A New Birth of Freedom

President Lincoln "deputized" newspaper editor Horace Greeley, authorizing him to meet with Confederate agents at Niagara Falls to discuss a possible peace with the Confederacy.

The New York draft riots were led mostly by_____________.

Lincoln won the election of 1864 by a narrow electoral margin.

By 1863, Confederate President Jefferson Davis

In both Northern and Southern prisoner of war camps,

Describe the Northern military strategy after Ulysses S. Grant became general-in-chief. How was the strategy different from that of previous Union commanders?

A few black laborers in the South had unofficially fought for the Confederacy alongside their masters.

The Southern prison camp where 13,000 Union soldiers died was

Northerners could pay_____________ to avoid the draft.

_____________was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1864.

The Confederate incursion into Maryland in September 1862 went well at the start.

At Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee

The man who assassinated President Lincoln was_____________.

In Georgia, Hood's army kept Union General Sherman from taking two railroads leading into Atlanta from the South.

Lincoln won a higher proportion of the soldier vote than he civilian vote in 1864.

Sherman's march through Georgia encountered little resistance.

During the battle of Antietam, soldiers found a copy of McClellan's deployment orders.

The Battle of Antietam was referred to as_____________ by the Confederates.

How was Fredrick Douglass associated with the 54^th Massachusetts Infantry?

In 1862, Lincoln relied on force to keep the border states in line.