Exam 15: Crucible of Freedom: Civil War

In 1861, President Lincoln asserted that he had no intention of interfering with slavery where it already existed. Two years later, however, he changed his position and issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Why? What were the practical and the ideological considerations? What did the proclamation do, and what did it not do? Why was it significant?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Robert E. Lee

How did the Union and Confederate governments compare in their handling of dissent?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Ex parte Merryman

Compare the approaches of the Union and the Confederacy in dealing with the following wartime challenges: manning and supplying their armies, public finance, and political dissent.

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Jefferson Davis

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Maryland, writ of habeas corpus

What happened to consumer prices during the Civil War?

Of the following nations/areas, which was the last to abolish slavery?

The Civil War resulted in the end of slavery, the weakening of states' rights, the creation of a national banking system, promotion of large-scale business, and expanded federal powers. What conclusion can you draw from those facts?

Explain why the South lost and North won the Civil War. Discuss three of the following issues in your explanation: war goals, economic strengths and weaknesses, public finance, military and naval strengths and weaknesses, relations with the rest of the world, and political systems.

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Radical Republicans

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Hardtack

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Fort Pillow massacre

The Civil War can be considered the first modern war for all of the following reasons except

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Emancipation Proclamation

Which of the following best describes the reaction to female nurses during the war?

What advantages did each combatant, Union and Confederate, possess at the start of the Civil War?

Black soldiers in the Union army

What did the National Bank Act of 1863 do?