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Question 1

73. Economically, what did the Civil War lead to?

Answer 1

B. the emergence of a nation-state committed to national economic development

Question 2

74. Colonel John Chivington is remembered for _______.

Answer 2

D. leading an attack that killed perhaps 400 Indian men, women, and children

Question 3

75. Captains of industry like steel magnate Andrew Carnegie and oil man John D. Rockefeller ________.

Answer 3

A. began creating or consolidating their fortunes during the Civil War

Question 4

76. Which of the following is TRUE of the Confederacy and Native Americans?

Answer 4

C. Slaveowning Indians generally supported the Confederacy

Question 5

77. “Greenback” was a Civil War-era nickname for_________.

Answer 5

C. paper money

Question 6

78. The U.S. Sanitary Commission _______.

Answer 6

C. coordinated war donations on the northern homefront

Question 7

79. During the Civil War, northern white women _________.

Answer 7

B. began obtaining jobs as government clerks

Question 8

80. Who lobbied for the United States to endorse the First Geneva Convention of 1864?

Answer 8

A. Clara Barton

Question 9

81. Copperheads were ________.

Answer 9

A. what Republicans called northern opponents of the war

Question 10

82. Which of the following is TRUE of Jefferson Davis and his governing?

Answer 10

B. His administration actually suffered from the Confederacy’s lack of political parties

Question 11

83. “King Cotton diplomacy” led Great Britain to ______.

Answer 11

A. find new supplies of cotton outside the south

Question 12

84. In July 1863, the Union won two key victories that are often identified as turning points in the war. The victories occurred at ______.

Answer 12

A. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and Vicksburg, Mississippi

Question 13

85. The Union’s manpower advantage over the Confederacy_______.

Answer 13

B. proved essential for the success of Grant’s attrition strategy

Question 14

86. In the May and June 1864 battles in Virginia (between the armies of Grant and Lee), __________.

Answer 14

D. the Union army, despite high casualties, pressed forward in its campaign

Question 15

87. Which September 1864 event helped Lincoln win reelection as president in November?

Answer 15

D. Sherman’s capture of Atlanta

Question 16

88 The “Sea Island Experiment” refers to _____.

Answer 16

A. northern reformers’ efforts to assist former slaves with the transition to freedom

Question 17

89. Rehearsals for reconstruction during the Civil War demonstrated that _______.

Answer 17

A. the main aspiration of former slaves was the ownership of their own land

Question 18

90. The Wade-Davis Bill in 1864_____.

Answer 18

C. showed Radical Republicans’ frustration with Lincoln’s Republican Reconstruction plan

Question 19

91. General Sherman marched from Atlanta to the sea in order to _______.

Answer 19

B. demoralize the South’s civilian population

Question 20

92. The Thirteenth Amendment ______.

Answer 20

A. abolished slavery throughout the United States

Question 21

93. Lincoln’s second inaugural address ____.

Answer 21

B. pronounced a harsh judgment on the nation’s past

Question 22

94. In his last speech, what did Lincoln say regarding postwar policy?

Answer 22

C. There should be at least limited black suffrage

Question 23

95. How was Ulysses Grant received in Europe during his tour in the 1870s?

Answer 23

B. He was praised as a “Hero of Freedom”

Question 24

96. Frederick Douglass viewed the abolition of slavery as ________.

Answer 24

A. not the end of the nation’s work, but the beginning of a new phase of it