49-72 Flashcards
- Monitor and Merrimac were ________.
A. ironclad ships
- Approximately how many Union and Confederate soldiers died during the Civil War?
C. 620,000
- What was a major part of the Anaconda Plan?
A. a naval blockade of the South
- At the first Battle of Bull Run ______.
A. spectators from the city came with picnic baskets to watch
- Who was offered a command in the Union army, but declined because of his devotion to his native state?
D. Robert E. Lee
- The major Confederate army in the East, commanded by Robert E. Lee, was called the Army of _____.
D. Northern Virginia
- During the first two years of the war, Union forces were generally _______.
A. more successful in the West than in the East
- At Antietam _____.
B. the nation suffered more casualties than on any other day in its history
- During the early days of the war, the U.S. Congress adopted a resolution proposed by Senator John Crittenden of Kentucky that _____.
C. affirmed that the Union had no intention of interfering with slavery
- Lincoln was hesitant to support abolition early in the war because he ______.
B. feared losing the support of the slave holding states within the Union
- During the Civil War, what did the term “contraband camps” refer to?
B. camps of southern slaves who had escaped from their masters and entered Union lines
61.Which Union general in Missouri decreed freedom to that state’s slaves in 1861, a year before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
B. John Fremont
- Lincoln’s issuance of an emancipation proclamation ___.
C. followed the narrow Union victory in the Battle of Antietam
- The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, ________.
B. did not apply to the border states that had not seceded
- The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer regiment is best known as _____.
A. a regiment of free blacks who charged Fort Wagner, South Carolina
- During the Civil War, black soldiers _____.
C. helped inspire Republicans to believe that emancipation also demanded equal rights before the law
- Beginning in 1863, what did Frederick Douglass urge northern blacks to do?
A. enlist in the Union Army
- Lincoln’s vision during the Civil War _______.
A. was that the American nation embodied a set of universal ideals rooted in political democracy and human freedom
- Lincoln spoke of “a new birth of freedom” for the nation in his _______.
D. Gettysburg Address
- During the Civil War, northern Protestant ministers ________.
B. helped create a civic religion combining Christianity and patriotism
- With regard to civil liberties during the Civil War, President Lincoln____.
B. suspended the writ of habeas corpus
- In an 1861 speech, Confederate vice president Alexander Stephens ________.
C. said that Thomas Jefferson had been wrong about an essential social and political truth
- What was the key holding of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Ex parte Milligan?
C. Accused persons must be tried before civil courts where there were open rather than military tribunals.
