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Question 1

49. Monitor and Merrimac were ________.

Answer 1

A. ironclad ships

Question 2

50. Approximately how many Union and Confederate soldiers died during the Civil War?

Answer 2

C. 620,000

Question 3

51. What was a major part of the Anaconda Plan?

Answer 3

A. a naval blockade of the South

Question 4

52. At the first Battle of Bull Run ______.

Answer 4

A. spectators from the city came with picnic baskets to watch

Question 5

54. Who was offered a command in the Union army, but declined because of his devotion to his native state?

Answer 5

D. Robert E. Lee

Question 6

55. The major Confederate army in the East, commanded by Robert E. Lee, was called the Army of _____.

Answer 6

D. Northern Virginia

Question 7

56. During the first two years of the war, Union forces were generally _______.

Answer 7

A. more successful in the West than in the East

Question 8

57. At Antietam _____.

Answer 8

B. the nation suffered more casualties than on any other day in its history

Question 9

58. During the early days of the war, the U.S. Congress adopted a resolution proposed by Senator John Crittenden of Kentucky that _____.

Answer 9

C. affirmed that the Union had no intention of interfering with slavery

Question 10

59. Lincoln was hesitant to support abolition early in the war because he ______.

Answer 10

B. feared losing the support of the slave holding states within the Union

Question 11

60. During the Civil War, what did the term “contraband camps” refer to?

Answer 11

B. camps of southern slaves who had escaped from their masters and entered Union lines

Question 12

61.Which Union general in Missouri decreed freedom to that state’s slaves in 1861, a year before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 12

B. John Fremont

Question 13

62. Lincoln’s issuance of an emancipation proclamation ___.

Answer 13

C. followed the narrow Union victory in the Battle of Antietam

Question 14

63. The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, ________.

Answer 14

B. did not apply to the border states that had not seceded

Question 15

64. The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer regiment is best known as _____.

Answer 15

A. a regiment of free blacks who charged Fort Wagner, South Carolina

Question 16

65. During the Civil War, black soldiers _____.

Answer 16

C. helped inspire Republicans to believe that emancipation also demanded equal rights before the law

Question 17

66. Beginning in 1863, what did Frederick Douglass urge northern blacks to do?

Answer 17

A. enlist in the Union Army

Question 18

67. Lincoln’s vision during the Civil War _______.

Answer 18

A. was that the American nation embodied a set of universal ideals rooted in political democracy and human freedom

Question 19

68. Lincoln spoke of “a new birth of freedom” for the nation in his _______.

Answer 19

D. Gettysburg Address

Question 20

69. During the Civil War, northern Protestant ministers ________.

Answer 20

B. helped create a civic religion combining Christianity and patriotism

Question 21

70. With regard to civil liberties during the Civil War, President Lincoln____.

Answer 21

B. suspended the writ of habeas corpus

Question 22

71. In an 1861 speech, Confederate vice president Alexander Stephens ________.

Answer 22

C. said that Thomas Jefferson had been wrong about an essential social and political truth

Question 23

72. What was the key holding of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Ex parte Milligan?

Answer 23

C. Accused persons must be tried before civil courts where there were open rather than military tribunals.