Question 1

What was the effect of emancipation on the politics and military affairs of the North?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Emancipa

Question 2

Which of the following statements describes the significance of the Battle of Antietam?

Accepted Answer

A)  More Confederate troops died in this battle than in the entire rest of the war. 
B)  It was the first definitive Union victory in the eastern theater of the war. 
C)  McClellan's battle plans fell into Confederate hands before the battle took place. 
D)  Lincoln removed McClellan from command after the battle for his timidity. 
A)  More Confederate troops died in this battle than in the entire rest of the war. 
B)  It was the first definitive Union victory in the eastern theater of the war. 
C)  McClellan's battle plans fell into Confederate hands before the battle took place. 
D)  Lincoln removed McClellan from command after the battle for his timidity.

Question 3

Answer the following  questions :
-Lieber Code

Accepted Answer

A) The Confederate belief during the Civil War that their cotton was so important to the British and French economies that those governments would recognize the South as an independent nation and supply it with loans and arms. 
B) A legal writ forcing government authorities to justify their arrest and detention of an individual.During the Civil War,Lincoln suspended this legal writ in order to stop protests against the draft and other anti-Union activities. 
C) Slaves who fled plantations and sought protection behind Union lines during the Civil War. 
D) The members of the Republican Party who were bitterly opposed to slavery and to southern slave owners since the mid-1850s.With the Confiscation Act in 1861,members of this party began to use wartime legislation to destroy slavery. 
E) President Abraham Lincoln's proclamation issued on January 1,1863 that legally abolished slavery in all states that remained out of the Union.While this proclamation did not immediately free a single slave,it signaled an end to the institution of slavery.
F)Paper money issued by the U.S.Treasury during the Civil War to finance the war effort.
G)A tax adopted by the Confederacy in 1863,requiring all farmers to turn over a tenth of their crops and livestock to the government for military use.The tax demonstrated the southern government's strong use of centralized power;it caused great hardship for poor families.
H)The system for selecting individuals for conscription,or compulsory military service,first implemented during the Civil War.
I)A law adopted by the Confederate Congress that exempted one man from military conscription for every twenty slaves owned by a family.The law showed how dependence on coerced slave labor could be a military disadvantage,and it exacerbated class resentments among non-slaveholding whites who were required to serve in the army.
J)Violent protests against military conscription that occurred in the North,most dramatically in New York City;led by working-class men who could not buy exemption from conscription.
K)Union guidelines for the laws of war,issued in April,1863.The code ruled that soldiers and prisoners must be treated equally without respect to color or race;justified a range of military actions if they were based on "necessity" and would "hasten surrender";and outlawed the use of torture.The code provided a foundation for later international agreements on the laws of war.
L)An organization that supported the Union war effort through professional and volunteer medical aid.
M)An organization of Unionist women that worked to support the war effort,hoping the Union would reward women's patriotism with voting rights after the war.
N)Members of the Democratic Party that split into two camps over war policy during the Civil War.One faction vowed to continue fighting until the rebellion ended,while the other called for a constitutional convention to negotiate a peace settlement.
O)A derogatory word for interracial sexual relationships,coined by Democrats in the 1864 election who claimed that emancipation would allow African American men to gain sexual access to white women and produce mixed-race children.
P)An order by General William T.Sherman,later reversed by policymakers,that granted confiscated land to formerly enslaved families in Georgia and South Carolina so they could farm independently.
Q)The philosophy and tactics used by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman,by which he treated civilians as combatants. 
A) The Confederate belief during the Civil War that their cotton was so important to the British and French economies that those governments would recognize the South as an independent nation and supply it with loans and arms. 
B) A legal writ forcing government authorities to justify their arrest and detention of an individual.During the Civil War,Lincoln suspended this legal writ in order to stop protests against the draft and other anti-Union activities. 
C) Slaves who fled plantations and sought protection behind Union lines during the Civil War. 
D) The members of the Republican Party who were bitterly opposed to slavery and to southern slave owners since the mid-1850s.With the Confiscation Act in 1861,members of this party began to use wartime legislation to destroy slavery. 
E) President Abraham Lincoln's proclamation issued on January 1,1863 that legally abolished slavery in all states that remained out of the Union.While this proclamation did not immediately free a single slave,it signaled an end to the institution of slavery.
F)Paper money issued by the U.S.Treasury during the Civil War to finance the war effort.
G)A tax adopted by the Confederacy in 1863,requiring all farmers to turn over a tenth of their crops and livestock to the government for military use.The tax demonstrated the southern government's strong use of centralized power;it caused great hardship for poor families.
H)The system for selecting individuals for conscription,or compulsory military service,first implemented during the Civil War.
I)A law adopted by the Confederate Congress that exempted one man from military conscription for every twenty slaves owned by a family.The law showed how dependence on coerced slave labor could be a military disadvantage,and it exacerbated class resentments among non-slaveholding whites who were required to serve in the army.
J)Violent protests against military conscription that occurred in the North,most dramatically in New York City;led by working-class men who could not buy exemption from conscription.
K)Union guidelines for the laws of war,issued in April,1863.The code ruled that soldiers and prisoners must be treated equally without respect to color or race;justified a range of military actions if they were based on "necessity" and would "hasten surrender";and outlawed the use of torture.The code provided a foundation for later international agreements on the laws of war.
L)An organization that supported the Union war effort through professional and volunteer medical aid.
M)An organization of Unionist women that worked to support the war effort,hoping the Union would reward women's patriotism with voting rights after the war.
N)Members of the Democratic Party that split into two camps over war policy during the Civil War.One faction vowed to continue fighting until the rebellion ended,while the other called for a constitutional convention to negotiate a peace settlement.
O)A derogatory word for interracial sexual relationships,coined by Democrats in the 1864 election who claimed that emancipation would allow African American men to gain sexual access to white women and produce mixed-race children.
P)An order by General William T.Sherman,later reversed by policymakers,that granted confiscated land to formerly enslaved families in Georgia and South Carolina so they could farm independently.
Q)The philosophy and tactics used by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman,by which he treated civilians as combatants.

Question 4

Answer the following  questions :
-King Cotton

Accepted Answer

A) The Confederate belief during the Civil War that their cotton was so important to the British and French economies that those governments would recognize the South as an independent nation and supply it with loans and arms. 
B) A legal writ forcing government authorities to justify their arrest and detention of an individual.During the Civil War,Lincoln suspended this legal writ in order to stop protests against the draft and other anti-Union activities. 
C) Slaves who fled plantations and sought protection behind Union lines during the Civil War. 
D) The members of the Republican Party who were bitterly opposed to slavery and to southern slave owners since the mid-1850s.With the Confiscation Act in 1861,members of this party began to use wartime legislation to destroy slavery. 
E) President Abraham Lincoln's proclamation issued on January 1,1863 that legally abolished slavery in all states that remained out of the Union.While this proclamation did not immediately free a single slave,it signaled an end to the institution of slavery.
F)Paper money issued by the U.S.Treasury during the Civil War to finance the war effort.
G)A tax adopted by the Confederacy in 1863,requiring all farmers to turn over a tenth of their crops and livestock to the government for military use.The tax demonstrated the southern government's strong use of centralized power;it caused great hardship for poor families.
H)The system for selecting individuals for conscription,or compulsory military service,first implemented during the Civil War.
I)A law adopted by the Confederate Congress that exempted one man from military conscription for every twenty slaves owned by a family.The law showed how dependence on coerced slave labor could be a military disadvantage,and it exacerbated class resentments among non-slaveholding whites who were required to serve in the army.
J)Violent protests against military conscription that occurred in the North,most dramatically in New York City;led by working-class men who could not buy exemption from conscription.
K)Union guidelines for the laws of war,issued in April,1863.The code ruled that soldiers and prisoners must be treated equally without respect to color or race;justified a range of military actions if they were based on "necessity" and would "hasten surrender";and outlawed the use of torture.The code provided a foundation for later international agreements on the laws of war.
L)An organization that supported the Union war effort through professional and volunteer medical aid.
M)An organization of Unionist women that worked to support the war effort,hoping the Union would reward women's patriotism with voting rights after the war.
N)Members of the Democratic Party that split into two camps over war policy during the Civil War.One faction vowed to continue fighting until the rebellion ended,while the other called for a constitutional convention to negotiate a peace settlement.
O)A derogatory word for interracial sexual relationships,coined by Democrats in the 1864 election who claimed that emancipation would allow African American men to gain sexual access to white women and produce mixed-race children.
P)An order by General William T.Sherman,later reversed by policymakers,that granted confiscated land to formerly enslaved families in Georgia and South Carolina so they could farm independently.
Q)The philosophy and tactics used by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman,by which he treated civilians as combatants. 
A) The Confederate belief during the Civil War that their cotton was so important to the British and French economies that those governments would recognize the South as an independent nation and supply it with loans and arms. 
B) A legal writ forcing government authorities to justify their arrest and detention of an individual.During the Civil War,Lincoln suspended this legal writ in order to stop protests against the draft and other anti-Union activities. 
C) Slaves who fled plantations and sought protection behind Union lines during the Civil War. 
D) The members of the Republican Party who were bitterly opposed to slavery and to southern slave owners since the mid-1850s.With the Confiscation Act in 1861,members of this party began to use wartime legislation to destroy slavery. 
E) President Abraham Lincoln's proclamation issued on January 1,1863 that legally abolished slavery in all states that remained out of the Union.While this proclamation did not immediately free a single slave,it signaled an end to the institution of slavery.
F)Paper money issued by the U.S.Treasury during the Civil War to finance the war effort.
G)A tax adopted by the Confederacy in 1863,requiring all farmers to turn over a tenth of their crops and livestock to the government for military use.The tax demonstrated the southern government's strong use of centralized power;it caused great hardship for poor families.
H)The system for selecting individuals for conscription,or compulsory military service,first implemented during the Civil War.
I)A law adopted by the Confederate Congress that exempted one man from military conscription for every twenty slaves owned by a family.The law showed how dependence on coerced slave labor could be a military disadvantage,and it exacerbated class resentments among non-slaveholding whites who were required to serve in the army.
J)Violent protests against military conscription that occurred in the North,most dramatically in New York City;led by working-class men who could not buy exemption from conscription.
K)Union guidelines for the laws of war,issued in April,1863.The code ruled that soldiers and prisoners must be treated equally without respect to color or race;justified a range of military actions if they were based on "necessity" and would "hasten surrender";and outlawed the use of torture.The code provided a foundation for later international agreements on the laws of war.
L)An organization that supported the Union war effort through professional and volunteer medical aid.
M)An organization of Unionist women that worked to support the war effort,hoping the Union would reward women's patriotism with voting rights after the war.
N)Members of the Democratic Party that split into two camps over war policy during the Civil War.One faction vowed to continue fighting until the rebellion ended,while the other called for a constitutional convention to negotiate a peace settlement.
O)A derogatory word for interracial sexual relationships,coined by Democrats in the 1864 election who claimed that emancipation would allow African American men to gain sexual access to white women and produce mixed-race children.
P)An order by General William T.Sherman,later reversed by policymakers,that granted confiscated land to formerly enslaved families in Georgia and South Carolina so they could farm independently.
Q)The philosophy and tactics used by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman,by which he treated civilians as combatants.

Question 5

Answer the following  questions :
-Emancipation Proclamation

Accepted Answer

A) The Confederate belief during the Civil War that their cotton was so important to the British and French economies that those governments would recognize the South as an independent nation and supply it with loans and arms. 
B) A legal writ forcing government authorities to justify their arrest and detention of an individual.During the Civil War,Lincoln suspended this legal writ in order to stop protests against the draft and other anti-Union activities. 
C) Slaves who fled plantations and sought protection behind Union lines during the Civil War. 
D) The members of the Republican Party who were bitterly opposed to slavery and to southern slave owners since the mid-1850s.With the Confiscation Act in 1861,members of this party began to use wartime legislation to destroy slavery. 
E) President Abraham Lincoln's proclamation issued on January 1,1863 that legally abolished slavery in all states that remained out of the Union.While this proclamation did not immediately free a single slave,it signaled an end to the institution of slavery.
F)Paper money issued by the U.S.Treasury during the Civil War to finance the war effort.
G)A tax adopted by the Confederacy in 1863,requiring all farmers to turn over a tenth of their crops and livestock to the government for military use.The tax demonstrated the southern government's strong use of centralized power;it caused great hardship for poor families.
H)The system for selecting individuals for conscription,or compulsory military service,first implemented during the Civil War.
I)A law adopted by the Confederate Congress that exempted one man from military conscription for every twenty slaves owned by a family.The law showed how dependence on coerced slave labor could be a military disadvantage,and it exacerbated class resentments among non-slaveholding whites who were required to serve in the army.
J)Violent protests against military conscription that occurred in the North,most dramatically in New York City;led by working-class men who could not buy exemption from conscription.
K)Union guidelines for the laws of war,issued in April,1863.The code ruled that soldiers and prisoners must be treated equally without respect to color or race;justified a range of military actions if they were based on "necessity" and would "hasten surrender";and outlawed the use of torture.The code provided a foundation for later international agreements on the laws of war.
L)An organization that supported the Union war effort through professional and volunteer medical aid.
M)An organization of Unionist women that worked to support the war effort,hoping the Union would reward women's patriotism with voting rights after the war.
N)Members of the Democratic Party that split into two camps over war policy during the Civil War.One faction vowed to continue fighting until the rebellion ended,while the other called for a constitutional convention to negotiate a peace settlement.
O)A derogatory word for interracial sexual relationships,coined by Democrats in the 1864 election who claimed that emancipation would allow African American men to gain sexual access to white women and produce mixed-race children.
P)An order by General William T.Sherman,later reversed by policymakers,that granted confiscated land to formerly enslaved families in Georgia and South Carolina so they could farm independently.
Q)The philosophy and tactics used by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman,by which he treated civilians as combatants. 
A) The Confederate belief during the Civil War that their cotton was so important to the British and French economies that those governments would recognize the South as an independent nation and supply it with loans and arms. 
B) A legal writ forcing government authorities to justify their arrest and detention of an individual.During the Civil War,Lincoln suspended this legal writ in order to stop protests against the draft and other anti-Union activities. 
C) Slaves who fled plantations and sought protection behind Union lines during the Civil War. 
D) The members of the Republican Party who were bitterly opposed to slavery and to southern slave owners since the mid-1850s.With the Confiscation Act in 1861,members of this party began to use wartime legislation to destroy slavery. 
E) President Abraham Lincoln's proclamation issued on January 1,1863 that legally abolished slavery in all states that remained out of the Union.While this proclamation did not immediately free a single slave,it signaled an end to the institution of slavery.
F)Paper money issued by the U.S.Treasury during the Civil War to finance the war effort.
G)A tax adopted by the Confederacy in 1863,requiring all farmers to turn over a tenth of their crops and livestock to the government for military use.The tax demonstrated the southern government's strong use of centralized power;it caused great hardship for poor families.
H)The system for selecting individuals for conscription,or compulsory military service,first implemented during the Civil War.
I)A law adopted by the Confederate Congress that exempted one man from military conscription for every twenty slaves owned by a family.The law showed how dependence on coerced slave labor could be a military disadvantage,and it exacerbated class resentments among non-slaveholding whites who were required to serve in the army.
J)Violent protests against military conscription that occurred in the North,most dramatically in New York City;led by working-class men who could not buy exemption from conscription.
K)Union guidelines for the laws of war,issued in April,1863.The code ruled that soldiers and prisoners must be treated equally without respect to color or race;justified a range of military actions if they were based on "necessity" and would "hasten surrender";and outlawed the use of torture.The code provided a foundation for later international agreements on the laws of war.
L)An organization that supported the Union war effort through professional and volunteer medical aid.
M)An organization of Unionist women that worked to support the war effort,hoping the Union would reward women's patriotism with voting rights after the war.
N)Members of the Democratic Party that split into two camps over war policy during the Civil War.One faction vowed to continue fighting until the rebellion ended,while the other called for a constitutional convention to negotiate a peace settlement.
O)A derogatory word for interracial sexual relationships,coined by Democrats in the 1864 election who claimed that emancipation would allow African American men to gain sexual access to white women and produce mixed-race children.
P)An order by General William T.Sherman,later reversed by policymakers,that granted confiscated land to formerly enslaved families in Georgia and South Carolina so they could farm independently.
Q)The philosophy and tactics used by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman,by which he treated civilians as combatants.

Question 6

Answer the following  questions :
-draft riots

Accepted Answer

A) The Confederate belief during the Civil War that their cotton was so important to the British and French economies that those governments would recognize the South as an independent nation and supply it with loans and arms. 
B) A legal writ forcing government authorities to justify their arrest and detention of an individual.During the Civil War,Lincoln suspended this legal writ in order to stop protests against the draft and other anti-Union activities. 
C) Slaves who fled plantations and sought protection behind Union lines during the Civil War. 
D) The members of the Republican Party who were bitterly opposed to slavery and to southern slave owners since the mid-1850s.With the Confiscation Act in 1861,members of this party began to use wartime legislation to destroy slavery. 
E) President Abraham Lincoln's proclamation issued on January 1,1863 that legally abolished slavery in all states that remained out of the Union.While this proclamation did not immediately free a single slave,it signaled an end to the institution of slavery.
F)Paper money issued by the U.S.Treasury during the Civil War to finance the war effort.
G)A tax adopted by the Confederacy in 1863,requiring all farmers to turn over a tenth of their crops and livestock to the government for military use.The tax demonstrated the southern government's strong use of centralized power;it caused great hardship for poor families.
H)The system for selecting individuals for conscription,or compulsory military service,first implemented during the Civil War.
I)A law adopted by the Confederate Congress that exempted one man from military conscription for every twenty slaves owned by a family.The law showed how dependence on coerced slave labor could be a military disadvantage,and it exacerbated class resentments among non-slaveholding whites who were required to serve in the army.
J)Violent protests against military conscription that occurred in the North,most dramatically in New York City;led by working-class men who could not buy exemption from conscription.
K)Union guidelines for the laws of war,issued in April,1863.The code ruled that soldiers and prisoners must be treated equally without respect to color or race;justified a range of military actions if they were based on "necessity" and would "hasten surrender";and outlawed the use of torture.The code provided a foundation for later international agreements on the laws of war.
L)An organization that supported the Union war effort through professional and volunteer medical aid.
M)An organization of Unionist women that worked to support the war effort,hoping the Union would reward women's patriotism with voting rights after the war.
N)Members of the Democratic Party that split into two camps over war policy during the Civil War.One faction vowed to continue fighting until the rebellion ended,while the other called for a constitutional convention to negotiate a peace settlement.
O)A derogatory word for interracial sexual relationships,coined by Democrats in the 1864 election who claimed that emancipation would allow African American men to gain sexual access to white women and produce mixed-race children.
P)An order by General William T.Sherman,later reversed by policymakers,that granted confiscated land to formerly enslaved families in Georgia and South Carolina so they could farm independently.
Q)The philosophy and tactics used by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman,by which he treated civilians as combatants. 
A) The Confederate belief during the Civil War that their cotton was so important to the British and French economies that those governments would recognize the South as an independent nation and supply it with loans and arms. 
B) A legal writ forcing government authorities to justify their arrest and detention of an individual.During the Civil War,Lincoln suspended this legal writ in order to stop protests against the draft and other anti-Union activities. 
C) Slaves who fled plantations and sought protection behind Union lines during the Civil War. 
D) The members of the Republican Party who were bitterly opposed to slavery and to southern slave owners since the mid-1850s.With the Confiscation Act in 1861,members of this party began to use wartime legislation to destroy slavery. 
E) President Abraham Lincoln's proclamation issued on January 1,1863 that legally abolished slavery in all states that remained out of the Union.While this proclamation did not immediately free a single slave,it signaled an end to the institution of slavery.
F)Paper money issued by the U.S.Treasury during the Civil War to finance the war effort.
G)A tax adopted by the Confederacy in 1863,requiring all farmers to turn over a tenth of their crops and livestock to the government for military use.The tax demonstrated the southern government's strong use of centralized power;it caused great hardship for poor families.
H)The system for selecting individuals for conscription,or compulsory military service,first implemented during the Civil War.
I)A law adopted by the Confederate Congress that exempted one man from military conscription for every twenty slaves owned by a family.The law showed how dependence on coerced slave labor could be a military disadvantage,and it exacerbated class resentments among non-slaveholding whites who were required to serve in the army.
J)Violent protests against military conscription that occurred in the North,most dramatically in New York City;led by working-class men who could not buy exemption from conscription.
K)Union guidelines for the laws of war,issued in April,1863.The code ruled that soldiers and prisoners must be treated equally without respect to color or race;justified a range of military actions if they were based on "necessity" and would "hasten surrender";and outlawed the use of torture.The code provided a foundation for later international agreements on the laws of war.
L)An organization that supported the Union war effort through professional and volunteer medical aid.
M)An organization of Unionist women that worked to support the war effort,hoping the Union would reward women's patriotism with voting rights after the war.
N)Members of the Democratic Party that split into two camps over war policy during the Civil War.One faction vowed to continue fighting until the rebellion ended,while the other called for a constitutional convention to negotiate a peace settlement.
O)A derogatory word for interracial sexual relationships,coined by Democrats in the 1864 election who claimed that emancipation would allow African American men to gain sexual access to white women and produce mixed-race children.
P)An order by General William T.Sherman,later reversed by policymakers,that granted confiscated land to formerly enslaved families in Georgia and South Carolina so they could farm independently.
Q)The philosophy and tactics used by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman,by which he treated civilians as combatants.

Question 7

The Confederacy financed the Civil War primarily by

Accepted Answer

A)  selling bonds to wealthy planters. 
B)  imposing a modest property tax and an export tax on cotton. 
C)  issuing paper currency that was not backed by gold or silver. 
D)  borrowing heavily from Britain. 
A)  selling bonds to wealthy planters. 
B)  imposing a modest property tax and an export tax on cotton. 
C)  issuing paper currency that was not backed by gold or silver. 
D)  borrowing heavily from Britain.

Question 8

Which of the following describes the South after the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865?

Accepted Answer

A)  Many of the South's factories,railroads,and cities lay in ruins. 
B)  Many slaves had fled,but slavery still remained as an institution. 
C)  The South remained largely unaffected by the battles that had taken place. 
D)  The South lost only 26,000 soldiers in the war,compared to the 300,000 lost by the North. 
A)  Many of the South's factories,railroads,and cities lay in ruins. 
B)  Many slaves had fled,but slavery still remained as an institution. 
C)  The South remained largely unaffected by the battles that had taken place. 
D)  The South lost only 26,000 soldiers in the war,compared to the 300,000 lost by the North.

Question 9

Which of the following Confederate government policies damaged morale in the Confederacy,clearly making it evident that the war was a "poor man's fight"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Greenbacks 
B)  One-tenth tax 
C)  Twenty-Negro rule 
D)  Homestead Act of 1862 
A)  Greenbacks 
B)  One-tenth tax 
C)  Twenty-Negro rule 
D)  Homestead Act of 1862

Question 10

What was the Confederacy seeking to achieve with the war in 1861?

Accepted Answer

A)  Permanent independence and "to be let alone" 
B)  Reestablishment of the Union with ironclad guarantees for slavery 
C)  The annexation of all the border states and of the Southwest as far as the Pacific 
D)  Expansion into the Caribbean,Central America,and northern Mexico 
A)  Permanent independence and "to be let alone" 
B)  Reestablishment of the Union with ironclad guarantees for slavery 
C)  The annexation of all the border states and of the Southwest as far as the Pacific 
D)  Expansion into the Caribbean,Central America,and northern Mexico

Question 11

How did Democrats hope to win the 1864 presidential election?

Accepted Answer

A)  Due to its secret agreements with Confederate policymakers 
B)  Via encouraging immigrants to stay home instead of voting 
C)  By running a campaign for full support for continuing the war 
D)  Through raising concerns about racial miscegenation 
A)  Due to its secret agreements with Confederate policymakers 
B)  Via encouraging immigrants to stay home instead of voting 
C)  By running a campaign for full support for continuing the war 
D)  Through raising concerns about racial miscegenation

Question 12

The Emancipation Proclamation stated that

Accepted Answer

A)  slaves in the rebel states would be freed. 
B)  slaves in the border states would be freed. 
C)  all slaves in the United States would be freed. 
D)  all fugitive slaves and all slaves captured by the Union army were free. 
A)  slaves in the rebel states would be freed. 
B)  slaves in the border states would be freed. 
C)  all slaves in the United States would be freed. 
D)  all fugitive slaves and all slaves captured by the Union army were free.

Question 13

How did the Confederacy,with its agricultural economy,acquire the products and equipment it needed to supply its army?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Confederacy made black-market arrangements with northern manufacturers. 
B)  The Confederates industrialized at a rapid pace in order to produce goods domestically. 
C)  Profits from cotton exports provided funds to purchase imported products. 
D)  It relied on soldiers' families to supply them with the equipment they needed. 
A)  The Confederacy made black-market arrangements with northern manufacturers. 
B)  The Confederates industrialized at a rapid pace in order to produce goods domestically. 
C)  Profits from cotton exports provided funds to purchase imported products. 
D)  It relied on soldiers' families to supply them with the equipment they needed.

Question 14

Answer the following  questions :
-hard war

Accepted Answer

A) The Confederate belief during the Civil War that their cotton was so important to the British and French economies that those governments would recognize the South as an independent nation and supply it with loans and arms. 
B) A legal writ forcing government authorities to justify their arrest and detention of an individual.During the Civil War,Lincoln suspended this legal writ in order to stop protests against the draft and other anti-Union activities. 
C) Slaves who fled plantations and sought protection behind Union lines during the Civil War. 
D) The members of the Republican Party who were bitterly opposed to slavery and to southern slave owners since the mid-1850s.With the Confiscation Act in 1861,members of this party began to use wartime legislation to destroy slavery. 
E) President Abraham Lincoln's proclamation issued on January 1,1863 that legally abolished slavery in all states that remained out of the Union.While this proclamation did not immediately free a single slave,it signaled an end to the institution of slavery.
F)Paper money issued by the U.S.Treasury during the Civil War to finance the war effort.
G)A tax adopted by the Confederacy in 1863,requiring all farmers to turn over a tenth of their crops and livestock to the government for military use.The tax demonstrated the southern government's strong use of centralized power;it caused great hardship for poor families.
H)The system for selecting individuals for conscription,or compulsory military service,first implemented during the Civil War.
I)A law adopted by the Confederate Congress that exempted one man from military conscription for every twenty slaves owned by a family.The law showed how dependence on coerced slave labor could be a military disadvantage,and it exacerbated class resentments among non-slaveholding whites who were required to serve in the army.
J)Violent protests against military conscription that occurred in the North,most dramatically in New York City;led by working-class men who could not buy exemption from conscription.
K)Union guidelines for the laws of war,issued in April,1863.The code ruled that soldiers and prisoners must be treated equally without respect to color or race;justified a range of military actions if they were based on "necessity" and would "hasten surrender";and outlawed the use of torture.The code provided a foundation for later international agreements on the laws of war.
L)An organization that supported the Union war effort through professional and volunteer medical aid.
M)An organization of Unionist women that worked to support the war effort,hoping the Union would reward women's patriotism with voting rights after the war.
N)Members of the Democratic Party that split into two camps over war policy during the Civil War.One faction vowed to continue fighting until the rebellion ended,while the other called for a constitutional convention to negotiate a peace settlement.
O)A derogatory word for interracial sexual relationships,coined by Democrats in the 1864 election who claimed that emancipation would allow African American men to gain sexual access to white women and produce mixed-race children.
P)An order by General William T.Sherman,later reversed by policymakers,that granted confiscated land to formerly enslaved families in Georgia and South Carolina so they could farm independently.
Q)The philosophy and tactics used by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman,by which he treated civilians as combatants. 
A) The Confederate belief during the Civil War that their cotton was so important to the British and French economies that those governments would recognize the South as an independent nation and supply it with loans and arms. 
B) A legal writ forcing government authorities to justify their arrest and detention of an individual.During the Civil War,Lincoln suspended this legal writ in order to stop protests against the draft and other anti-Union activities. 
C) Slaves who fled plantations and sought protection behind Union lines during the Civil War. 
D) The members of the Republican Party who were bitterly opposed to slavery and to southern slave owners since the mid-1850s.With the Confiscation Act in 1861,members of this party began to use wartime legislation to destroy slavery. 
E) President Abraham Lincoln's proclamation issued on January 1,1863 that legally abolished slavery in all states that remained out of the Union.While this proclamation did not immediately free a single slave,it signaled an end to the institution of slavery.
F)Paper money issued by the U.S.Treasury during the Civil War to finance the war effort.
G)A tax adopted by the Confederacy in 1863,requiring all farmers to turn over a tenth of their crops and livestock to the government for military use.The tax demonstrated the southern government's strong use of centralized power;it caused great hardship for poor families.
H)The system for selecting individuals for conscription,or compulsory military service,first implemented during the Civil War.
I)A law adopted by the Confederate Congress that exempted one man from military conscription for every twenty slaves owned by a family.The law showed how dependence on coerced slave labor could be a military disadvantage,and it exacerbated class resentments among non-slaveholding whites who were required to serve in the army.
J)Violent protests against military conscription that occurred in the North,most dramatically in New York City;led by working-class men who could not buy exemption from conscription.
K)Union guidelines for the laws of war,issued in April,1863.The code ruled that soldiers and prisoners must be treated equally without respect to color or race;justified a range of military actions if they were based on "necessity" and would "hasten surrender";and outlawed the use of torture.The code provided a foundation for later international agreements on the laws of war.
L)An organization that supported the Union war effort through professional and volunteer medical aid.
M)An organization of Unionist women that worked to support the war effort,hoping the Union would reward women's patriotism with voting rights after the war.
N)Members of the Democratic Party that split into two camps over war policy during the Civil War.One faction vowed to continue fighting until the rebellion ended,while the other called for a constitutional convention to negotiate a peace settlement.
O)A derogatory word for interracial sexual relationships,coined by Democrats in the 1864 election who claimed that emancipation would allow African American men to gain sexual access to white women and produce mixed-race children.
P)An order by General William T.Sherman,later reversed by policymakers,that granted confiscated land to formerly enslaved families in Georgia and South Carolina so they could farm independently.
Q)The philosophy and tactics used by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman,by which he treated civilians as combatants.

Question 15

The Civil War restored the Union and ended slavery,but how did it change economic,political,and social factors in the United States between 1860 and 1865?
Answer Key

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Economic

Question 16

Why did Robert E.Lee invade Maryland in August and September 1862?

Accepted Answer

A)  His orders to Jackson had fallen into Union hands,and he needed to improvise a new strategy to confuse the enemy. 
B)  He hoped that a victory over Union forces would humiliate Lincoln's government. 
C)  Lee was driven northward by McClellan,who had finally taken the offensive. 
D)  Lee planned to seize Baltimore and then strike at Washington,D.C. ,from the north. 
A)  His orders to Jackson had fallen into Union hands,and he needed to improvise a new strategy to confuse the enemy. 
B)  He hoped that a victory over Union forces would humiliate Lincoln's government. 
C)  Lee was driven northward by McClellan,who had finally taken the offensive. 
D)  Lee planned to seize Baltimore and then strike at Washington,D.C. ,from the north.

Question 17

Which of the following statements characterizes the role played by African Americans in the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

A)  Blacks were only allowed to take noncombat positions in the Union army. 
B)  African Americans served in segregated regiments and fought courageously. 
C)  By 1865,many slaves had fought for the Confederacy in return for a promise of freedom. 
D)  Black men refused to fight in the "white man's war," even after the Emancipation Proclamation. 
A)  Blacks were only allowed to take noncombat positions in the Union army. 
B)  African Americans served in segregated regiments and fought courageously. 
C)  By 1865,many slaves had fought for the Confederacy in return for a promise of freedom. 
D)  Black men refused to fight in the "white man's war," even after the Emancipation Proclamation.

Question 18

The Enrollment Act of 1863

Accepted Answer

A)  led to riots in New York City. 
B)  created a draft system that was more fair in the South than in the North. 
C)  allowed southerners to avoid the draft if they owned twenty or more slaves. 
D)  allowed blacks to volunteer in the Union army. 
A)  led to riots in New York City. 
B)  created a draft system that was more fair in the South than in the North. 
C)  allowed southerners to avoid the draft if they owned twenty or more slaves. 
D)  allowed blacks to volunteer in the Union army.

Question 19

Why was the Union capture of Atlanta in 1864 historically significant?

Accepted Answer

A)  The news propelled Lincoln to victory in the presidential election two months later. 
B)  General Lee surrendered his large army,marking the effective end of the war. 
C)  The victory gave control of the Mississippi River to Union forces. 
D)  The siege's success allowed Union forces to capture Richmond immediately. 
A)  The news propelled Lincoln to victory in the presidential election two months later. 
B)  General Lee surrendered his large army,marking the effective end of the war. 
C)  The victory gave control of the Mississippi River to Union forces. 
D)  The siege's success allowed Union forces to capture Richmond immediately.

Question 20

During the early years of the Civil War,the term contraband came into use to describe

Accepted Answer

A)  freedom-seeking slaves who fled from Confederate masters to Union armies. 
B)  slaves who were pressed into service. 
C)  northern free blacks who volunteered to serve in the Union army. 
D)  slaves drafted by the Confederate government for noncombatant duty. 
A)  freedom-seeking slaves who fled from Confederate masters to Union armies. 
B)  slaves who were pressed into service. 
C)  northern free blacks who volunteered to serve in the Union army. 
D)  slaves drafted by the Confederate government for noncombatant duty.

Exam 13: Bloody Ground: the Civil War, 1861-1865

What was the effect of emancipation on the politics and military affairs of the North?

Which of the following statements describes the significance of the Battle of Antietam?

Answer the following questions : -Lieber Code

Answer the following questions : -King Cotton

Answer the following questions : -Emancipation Proclamation

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The Confederacy financed the Civil War primarily by

Which of the following describes the South after the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865?

Which of the following Confederate government policies damaged morale in the Confederacy,clearly making it evident that the war was a "poor man's fight"?

What was the Confederacy seeking to achieve with the war in 1861?

How did Democrats hope to win the 1864 presidential election?

The Emancipation Proclamation stated that

How did the Confederacy,with its agricultural economy,acquire the products and equipment it needed to supply its army?

Answer the following questions : -hard war

The Civil War restored the Union and ended slavery,but how did it change economic,political,and social factors in the United States between 1860 and 1865? Answer Key

Why did Robert E.Lee invade Maryland in August and September 1862?

Which of the following statements characterizes the role played by African Americans in the Civil War?

The Enrollment Act of 1863

Why was the Union capture of Atlanta in 1864 historically significant?

During the early years of the Civil War,the term contraband came into use to describe

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