Why did Lincoln decide to risk war by resupplying Fort Sumter

1
Why did Lincoln decide to risk war by
re-supplying Fort Sumter?

• He did not wish to give in to the rebels.
• He wanted to bait the rebels into firing the
  first shot in the war.
• He knew that he would get more support for the
  war if the rebels fired first.
• All of the above

2
Robert E. Lee chose to fight for the confederacy
because

• He was for secession.
• He was for slavery.
• He wouldnt fight against Virginia.
• All of the above

3
It was important to keep the border states,
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri in the
Union because

• Slavery was illegal in those states.
• Their location and resources could tip the
  balance of the war.
• The northern states wanted a buffer between them
  and the southern states.
• Most of the war would be fought in the border
  states.

4
The Confederate war strategy was

• To fight a defensive war and bring the European
  nations into the war on their side.
• To surround and choke off the northern economic
  supply lines.
• To attack Washington D.C.
• Take over the Mississippi river and cut the Union
  in half.

5
The Union war strategy was

• To use a navel blockade to prevent the transport
  of confederate people and goods.
• To control the Mississippi River and cut the
  confederacy in two.
• To attack the Confederate capital, Richmond,
  Virginia.
• All of the above

6
In all, about _____ American soldiers served in
the Union and fewer than _____ served in the
Confederacy.

• 50,000 / 25,000
• 500,000 / 250,000
• 1,000,000 / 500,000
• 2,000,000 / 1,000,000

7
Early in the war, Northern soldiers received
clothing of very poor quality because

• The Northern states were poor.
• Contractors took advantage of the governments
  need and supplied shoddy goods.
• Northern soldiers supplied their own uniforms.
• All of the above

8
In the Confederacy, some states had trouble
providing uniforms at all, while others had
surpluses. Because

• Supply lines in the South didnt go from
  Richmond, Virginia to some of the states.
• States did not always cooperate and share
  supplies.
• Southern soldiers were too poor to buy the
  uniforms.
• All of the above

9
Poor _____ resulted in widespread sickness.

• Hospitals
• Soldiers
• Hygiene
• Clothing

10
Mounted charges and infantry assaults did not
work as well in this war because

• Of the new rifles with grooved barrels that
  caused bullets to spin through the air.
• Of the new hollow based bullets that would expand
  to fit the grooves in the rifle barrels.
• Rifles with minie balls could shoot farther and
  more accurately than old fashioned muskets.
• All of the above

11
The Battle of Shiloh turned into

• An overwhelming victory for the Union.
• An overwhelming victory for the Confederacy.
• The fiercest fighting the Civil War had yet seen.
• The reason why New Orleans fell.

12
At the Battle of Shiloh both side lost about
_____ of their soldiers.

• 1/8
• 1/6
• 1/4
• 1/2

13
On April 25th, 1862 a Union fleet captured
______, the largest city in the South.

• Atlanta
• New Orleans
• Richmond
• Charleston

14
With victories at the Seven Days Battle 2nd
Bull Run/Manassas, Lee

• Ended the Union threat in Virginia.
• Decided to go on the offensive.
• Crossed the Potomac with his army and invaded
  Maryland.
• All of the above

15
The Battle of Antietam

• Was the bloodiest day in all of American history.
• Ended in a draw.
• Inspired Lincoln to fire General McClellan.
• All of the above

16
President Lincoln said

• If I could save the Union without freeing any
  slave I would do it.
• If I could save it (the Union) by freeing all
  the slaves I would do it.
• If I could save it (the Union) by freeing some
  and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
• All of the above

17
The Emancipation Proclamation

• Freed all slaves in Confederate territory.
• Freed very few slaves at the time.
• Changed the war goal from a war about preserving
  the Union into a war of liberation.
• All of the above

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The primary reason why Lincoln issued the
Emancipation Proclamation when he did was

• To free all of the slaves.
• To punish the Confederacy.
• To appease the Abolitionists.
• To keep Europe out of the war.

19
The response to the Proclamation was

• Northerners were happy with it and Southerners
  were not.
• Most people thought that it didnt go far enough.
• Anger in the South and a mixed reaction in the
  North.
• England entered the war on the Norths side.

20
In addition to freeing the slaves, the
Emancipation Proclamation

• Welcomed African-Americans into the U.S. armed
  services.
• Freed the Russian surfs.
• Welcomed the slaves in Canada and Mexico to enter
  the U.S.
• All of the above

21
The same principle of states rights that led the
Confederacy to break with the Union kept them from

• Coordinating their war effort.
• Freeing the slaves.
• Building up industry.
• All of the above

22
Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus, which

• Makes the arresting officer state the rights of
  the accused.
• Prevents the government from holding citizens
  without a trial.
• Places the burden of proof on the government.
• All of the above

23
Both sides passed laws of conscription, these laws

• Allowed the government to arrest dissenters.
• Allowed the government to tax the population.
• Required men to serve in the military.
• All of the above

24
In the South

• Many people suffered economic hardships.
• Food shortages were very common.
• The value of money decreased.
• All of the above

25
To hurt the southern economy, slaves

• Slowed their pace of work.
• Stopped work altogether.
• Carried out sabotage.
• All of the above

26
After Antietam, The battles of Fredericksburg,
and Chancellorsville

• Were disasters for the Union.
• Were disasters for the Confederacy.
• Were also very bloody battles with no clear
  winner.
• Showed Lee that McClellan was a great general.

27
General Stonewall Jackson was killed

• At the Battle of Antietam.
• At the Battle of Fredericksburg.
• At the Battle of Chancellorsville.
• Accidentally by his own troops, when he was
  returning from patrol.

28
The turning point of The Battle of Gettysburg
that gave the Union the victory was

• The death of Stonewall Jackson.
• Cemetery Ridge.
• Little Round Top.
• Picketts Charge

29
The Union finally controlled all of the
Mississippi River

• On July 4th 1863.
• The day after Picketts Charge.
• When Vicksburg surrendered.
• All of the above

30
Shermans Total War

• Cut a path of destruction 60 miles wide and 300
  miles long through Georgia.
• Was a war against anything that supports the
  enemy.
• Helped Lincoln win reelection when he took
  Atlanta.
• All of the above

31
___ was the deadliest war, to Americans, in
American History.

• The Revolutionary War
• The Civil War
• World War One
• World War Two

32
The ______ banned slavery in the United States.

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Bill of Rights
• Thirteenth Amendment
• Civil Rights Movement

33
President Lincoln was

• Assassinated five days after Lees surrender.
• Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
• The first American President to be assassinated.
• All of the above

34
In the North, the war caused

• The people to see the United States as a single
  nation.
• The Federal government to grow stronger.
• The economy to switch from an agricultural base
  to industrial based.
• All of the above

35
For decades, the effect that the Civil War had on
the South was

• Economic disaster.
• A renewal of the plantation system.
• Racial harmony.
• All of the above

36
The process the federal government used to
readmit the Confederate states into the Union is
known as

• Formal assessment.
• Reconstruction.
• Interaction.
• Elevation.

37
President Johnson insisted

• That the new state governments ratify the 13th
  amendment.
• That the new state governments had to accept the
  supreme power of the federal government.
• That southern landowners had to pledge loyalty to
  the U.S. to get their land back.
• All of the above

38
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 declared

• That all persons born in the U.S. were citizens.
• That all persons (except Native Americans) born
  in the U.S. were citizens.
• That all persons (except African Americans) born
  in the U.S. were citizens.
• That all persons (except Irish Americans) born in
  the U.S. were citizens.

39
In 1866, Congress proposed the 14th Amendment.

• It stated that all people born in the U.S. had
  the same rights.
• It stated that all citizens were to be granted
  equal protection under the laws.
• It was opposed by President Johnson.
• All of the above

40
President Johnson became the first president to

• Be impeached by the House of Representatives.
• Be convicted by the Senate.
• Resign from office.
• All of the above

41
African Americans responded to freedom by

• Leaving plantations.
• Searching for more economic opportunities.
• Strengthening family ties.
• All of the above

42
To reach their goal of independence, African
Americans

• Moved to California.
• Joined the Democratic Party.
• Flocked to freedmens schools.
• Enlisted in the Army.

43
Under the contract system, African Americans
could choose for whom to work for, however

• Contracts paid very low wages.
• Workers often could not leave the plantation
  without permission.
• Laws punished workers for breaking a contract
  even if they were being cheated by the land
  owner.
• All of the above

44
The problem-(s) with the sharecropping system
was/were

• Landowners forced the farmers to grow cash-crops
  instead of food.
• Farmers were forced to buy supplies from the
  local store usually owned by the landowner.
• Farmers usually were trapped into an endless
  cycle of debt.
• All of the above

45
The secret group that violently opposed African
Americans and White Republicans in the South was
called

• The Ku Klux Klan.
• The Knights Templar.
• The Free Masons.
• The Skull and Bones.

46
The 15th Amendment

• Was proposed to secure the voting rights of
  African Americans in the South.
• Stated that citizens could not be stopped from
  voting on account of race, color, or previous
  conditions of servitude.
• Was ratified in 1870.
• All of the above

47
In 1871, President Grant used Federal Marshals to
arrest thousands of Klansmen. As a result,

• Klan attacks on African-American voters declined.
• The 1872 presidential election was both fair and
  peaceful in the South.
• Grant won reelection in 1872.
• All of the above

48
President Grant did not choose his advisers well.
As a result,

• He was only a one-term president.
• The Democrats won the Presidential Election of
  1872.
• Scandals plagued his administration and split the
  Republican Party.
• All of the above

49
Democrats won victories in the 1874 congressional
and state elections because

• The Ku Klux Klan stopped the African Americans
  from voting.
• Americans blamed the economic depression on The
  Republicans
• The Americans blamed the lack of reconstruction
  on the Republicans
• All of the above

50
The Compromise of 1877 made Hayes the 19th
President. However, Hayes ended the
Reconstruction Movement when he agreed to

• Remove federal troops from the South.
• Provide for Railroads to be built in the South.
• Give southern officials federal funds.
• Appoint a Democrat to his cabinet.