America A Narrative History brief 9th edition
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| 1101454399 | True or False: The outbreak of the Civil War disrupted everyday life, especially in the South | True | 0 | |
| 1101454400 | True or False: The white planter-merchant elite had no problem maintaining the traditional social system that sustained the power of whites over blacks, free over slaves, rich over poor, and men over women | False | 1 | |
| 1101454401 | True or False: Although most slaves initially bided their time, before long, slaves began to take advantage of the turmoil of the war to run away, engage in sabotage, join the Union, or pursue their own interest | True | 2 | |
| 1101454402 | What did one Tennessee planter record about his slaves? | That they worked little, would rather join the Union than work, and had rushed to join to Union army when they were in the area. He said that most had run away, and most of the rest were totally demoralized and ungovernable. | 3 | |
| 1101454403 | How did slaves contribute to the Union war effort? | some served as spies or guides, others escaped to join the Union army or navy. | 4 | |
| 1101454404 | True or False: Union generals whose armies took control of Confederate areas enlisted escaped slaves to serve as laborers in the camps | True | 5 | |
| 1101454405 | What did General Dodge do in Mississippi? | He armed 1,000 escaped male slaves to form the 1st Alabama Infantry Regiment of African Descent | 6 | |
| 1101454406 | True or False: The rebellion of southern whites against the Union's efforts to constrain slavery had spawned a rebellion of slaves against their white masters | True | 7 | |
| 1103954962 | True or False: During the Civil War western settlement continued | True | 8 | |
| 1103954963 | Why did thousands of people go to eastern California, Montana, and Colorado? | New discoveries of gold in silver in the areas lured prospectors and their suppliers | 9 | |
| 1103954964 | True or False: new transportation and communication networks emerged to serve the growing population in the West | True | 10 | |
| 1103954965 | True or False: Telegraph and stagecoach lines were extended across western settlements | True | 11 | |
| 1103954966 | What new territories were added to the Union in the 1860s? | Dakota, Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, and Montana (silver-rich Nevada gained statehood in 1864) | 12 | |
| 1103954967 | Where was the most intense fighting in the West? | along the Kansas-Missouri | 13 | |
| 1103954968 | Who was the most prominent pro-Confederate leader in the Kansas-Missouri area? | William Quantrill who led his pro-slavery followers under a black flag to kill all who surrendered, and who destroyed Lawrence Kansas in 1863, killing 182 men and boys | 14 | |
| 1103954969 | Who were Quantrill's opponents? | The Jayhawkers who responded by torturing and hanging pro-Confederate prisoners, burning houses and destroying livestock | 15 | |
| 1103954970 | True or False: Many Indian tribes found themselves caught up in the Civil War and the war divided some of the tribes such as the Cherokees | True | 16 | |
| 1103954971 | True or False: Indians among the "Five Civilized Tribes" held African American slaves and felt a natural bond with southern whites | True | 17 | |
| 1103954972 | True or False: little happened in the eastern theater before May 1862, but the western theater flared up with several encounters and an important penetration of the Confederate states | True | 18 | |
| 1103954973 | What was the first major Union victory of the war? | General Ulysses S. Grant's capture of Fort Henry and then Fort Donelson in Tennessee | 19 | |
| 1103954974 | What tempered Lincoln's elation over the victory at Fort Donelson? | The death of his 11 year old son Willie from typhoid fever | 20 | |
| 1103954975 | What was the costliest battle in which Americans had ever engaged, although worse was yet to come? | Shiloh | 21 | |
| 1103954976 | What happened at Shiloh? | Grant neglected to dig defensive trenches and Confederate General Albert Johnston took advantage of Grant's oversight and ordered an attack on the vulnerable Union forces. Albert Johnston was killed so the Confederates withdrew, but the Union army was too battered to pursue. Casualties totaled over 20,000 | 22 | |
| 1103954977 | True or False: Throughout the Civil War, winning armies would fail to pursue their retreating foes, thus allowing the wounded opponent to slip away and fight again. | True | 23 | |
| 1103954978 | What false rumor was spread by a jealous General Henry Halleck? | that Grant had been drinking during the battle at Shiloh | 24 | |
| 1103954979 | What happened as a result of Halleck's rumor? | Some tried to persuade Lincoln to fire Grant, which LIncoln refused, but Halleck took Grant's place as field commander and so the Union thrust southward came to a halt. | 25 | |
| 1103954980 | True or False: The eastern theater was explosive for nine months after the Battle of Bull Run | False, it was fairly quiet | 26 | |
| 1103954981 | Who did Lincoln replace McDowell with after the Union defeat at Bull Run? | General George B. McClellan, a classmate of Stonewall Jackson | 27 | |
| 1103954982 | What was McClellan's defect? | He was too cautious | 28 | |
| 1103954983 | How did McClellan respond to Lincoln's first order to attack? | He moved troops near Richmond, but failed to engage the enemy | 29 | |
| 1103954984 | What prevented a defeat of McClellan's army by General Joseph Jonston in the Battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks)? | The arrival of Federal reinforcements | 30 | |
| 1103954985 | Who took command of the Army of Northern Virginia after the Battle of Seven Pines which changed the course of the war? | Robert E. Lee, who enjoyed Davis's trust unlike Joseph Johnston, and who knew how to use the talents of his field commanders like Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | 31 | |
| 1103954986 | Why was McClellan removed? | He complained that the Lincoln administration had failed to support him and instructed the president at length on military strategy | 32 | |
| 1103954987 | Who replaced McClellan? | Halleck | 33 | |
| 1103954988 | What happened at the Second Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas)? | Washington forces under John Pope suffered a crushing defeat by the Confederates under Lee and Jackson | 34 | |
| 1103954989 | What did the Confederate victories in 1862 do? | they devastated Northern morale and convinced Lincoln that bolder steps would be required and now the North had to assault slavery itself | 35 | |
| 1103954990 | Why had Lincoln initially done nothing about the slavery issue? | the Union had needed to hold the border slave states; many anti-slavery activists wanted slavery prohibited only in the new western territories and states, were willing to allow slavery to continue in the South, and opposed racial integration; Lincoln had doubts about his constitutional authority to emancipate slaves | 36 | |
| 1103954991 | What was the only way around the slavery problem? | To justify emancipation as a military necessity | 37 | |
| 1104037491 | What helped force the issue of emancipation? | the fugitive slaves that began to turn up in Union army camps and that army commanders did not know how to designate (they ended up being called contrabands) | 38 | |
| 1104037492 | What acts did Lincoln sign prior to emancipation? | an act that abolished slavery in DC, an act that excluded slavery from the western territories without compensation to owners, a Second Confiscation Act that liberated slaves held by anyone aiding the rebellion, and an act forbidding the army to help return runaways to their border-state owners | 39 | |
| 1104037493 | Why did Lincoln decide in 1862 that emancipation of slaves in the Confederate states was necessary to win the war? | millions of enslaved laborers were being used to bolster the Rebel war effort, and sagging morale in the North needed the boost of a moral cause as public opinion was swinging toward emancipation, and proclaiming a war on slavery would end forever any chance that France or Britain would support the Confederacy | 40 | |
| 1104037494 | Why did Seward advise Lincoln to delay declaring emancipation until after a Union victory? | He wanted to avoid any semblance of desperation | 41 | |
| 1104037495 | What momentous decision did Robert E. Lee make in the summer of 1862? | He decided to invade the North and maybe gain foreign recognition and supplies for the Confederacy. | 42 | |
| 1104037496 | What was the bloodiest single day in American history? | The Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) | 43 | |
| 1104037497 | What happened at the battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862? | Lee's northern invasion failed and outnumbered Confederates withdrew to Virginia. Some 6,400 soldiers on both sides were killed and another 17,000 were wounded | 44 | |
| 1104037498 | Why did LIncoln relieve McClellan of his command of the Army of the Potomac and send him to recruit troops in New Jersey? | Although he was pleased that Lee had retreated, he was disgusted that McClellan did not gain a truly decisive victory by staying engaged with the retreating Confederates | 45 | |
| 1104037499 | Why was the Battle of Antietam significant? | It revived sagging northern morale, emboldened Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation which freed all slaves in the Confederate states, and dashed the Confederacy's hopes of foreign recognition. | 46 | |
| 1104037500 | What was Lincoln's worst choice of a commander? | Ambrose E. Burnside (who had twice turned down the job because he said he felt unfit for so large a command) | 47 | |
| 1104037501 | What happened to Burnside's forces when they tried to attack Fredericksburg, Virginia? | They were slaughtered, and had more than 12,000 casualties. | 48 | |
| 1104037502 | What was Burnsides defect? | He was an eager fighter and a poor strategist who was said to possess "ten times as much heart as he has head" | 49 | |
| 1104037503 | How did the year 1862 end? | forces in the East deadlocked and the Union advance in the west had been stalled since midyear. Union morale plummeted: Northern Democrats called for negotiated peace and Republicans grew increasingly fierce in their criticism of the president. Burnside was also under fire | 50 | |
| 1104037504 | Amid the dissension at the end of 1862, what factors in the deeper currents of the war were turning in favor of the Union? | 1) the North's superior resources gave it an advantage, 2)Confederate attack had been repulsed in the east and west, 3) Lincoln had changed the conflict from a war to restore the Union to a struggle to end slavery when he signed the Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863. | 51 |
