73-96 Flashcards
- Economically, what did the Civil War lead to?
B. the emergence of a nation-state committed to national economic development
- Colonel John Chivington is remembered for _______.
D. leading an attack that killed perhaps 400 Indian men, women, and children
- Captains of industry like steel magnate Andrew Carnegie and oil man John D. Rockefeller ________.
A. began creating or consolidating their fortunes during the Civil War
- Which of the following is TRUE of the Confederacy and Native Americans?
C. Slaveowning Indians generally supported the Confederacy
- “Greenback” was a Civil War-era nickname for_________.
C. paper money
- The U.S. Sanitary Commission _______.
C. coordinated war donations on the northern homefront
- During the Civil War, northern white women _________.
B. began obtaining jobs as government clerks
- Who lobbied for the United States to endorse the First Geneva Convention of 1864?
A. Clara Barton
- Copperheads were ________.
A. what Republicans called northern opponents of the war
- Which of the following is TRUE of Jefferson Davis and his governing?
B. His administration actually suffered from the Confederacy’s lack of political parties
- “King Cotton diplomacy” led Great Britain to ______.
A. find new supplies of cotton outside the south
- In July 1863, the Union won two key victories that are often identified as turning points in the war. The victories occurred at ______.
A. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and Vicksburg, Mississippi
- The Union’s manpower advantage over the Confederacy_______.
B. proved essential for the success of Grant’s attrition strategy
- In the May and June 1864 battles in Virginia (between the armies of Grant and Lee), __________.
D. the Union army, despite high casualties, pressed forward in its campaign
- Which September 1864 event helped Lincoln win reelection as president in November?
D. Sherman’s capture of Atlanta
88 The “Sea Island Experiment” refers to _____.
A. northern reformers’ efforts to assist former slaves with the transition to freedom
- Rehearsals for reconstruction during the Civil War demonstrated that _______.
A. the main aspiration of former slaves was the ownership of their own land
- The Wade-Davis Bill in 1864_____.
C. showed Radical Republicans’ frustration with Lincoln’s Republican Reconstruction plan
- General Sherman marched from Atlanta to the sea in order to _______.
B. demoralize the South’s civilian population
- The Thirteenth Amendment ______.
A. abolished slavery throughout the United States
- Lincoln’s second inaugural address ____.
B. pronounced a harsh judgment on the nation’s past
- In his last speech, what did Lincoln say regarding postwar policy?
C. There should be at least limited black suffrage
- How was Ulysses Grant received in Europe during his tour in the 1870s?
B. He was praised as a “Hero of Freedom”
- Frederick Douglass viewed the abolition of slavery as ________.
A. not the end of the nation’s work, but the beginning of a new phase of it
