Lectures 43-45

1.

1 point

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation took all of the following factors into account, except:

Northern Democrats gave no evidence of embracing emancipation

the border states had proved utterly intransigent

many northerners stood ready to embrace a harder type of war

the welfare of Northern slaves

the proclamation would weaken the Confederate war effort

2.

1 point

The Republican victories in the election of 1864, was largely due to:

McClellan's refusal to campaign

Union military and naval victories between late August and early November

Lee's surrender at Appomattox

a splintered Democratic party

3.

1 point

There were various sources of political division in the Confederacy. These sources included all of the following except:

Supporters of states' rights, who aligned against those who supported stronger central authority

An intrusive central government

A strong personal hatred of Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens

Pockets of strong unionism that remained in most states

4.

1 point

The Confederate economy weakened as the war progressed, the problem was predominately caused by:

a mistrust of the Confederate currency

a lack of transportation

the crash of the world-wide cotton market

a lowering of slave productivity on the farm/plantation

a lack of total economic production

5.

1 point

The Homestead Act, the Land-Grant College Act, and The Pacific Railroad Act

were proposed by Jefferson Davis, but received no attention from the Confederate Senate

were deemed important, but diverted the Union's attention from the critical task of winning the war

were instrumental in the North's success

were instrumental in the South's success

6.

1 point

Confederates reacted in different ways to their increasing problems. Which of the following was not a major cause of Confederate woes:

economic hardship

presence of US armies

refugees struggling to rebuild their lives

desertion of over 100,000 soldiers

the suspension of free speech

conscription

7.

1 point

Northern Republicans was the war as a struggle to restore the Union. Northern Democrats supported:

anything that would end the war quickly

both fighting for union and for black freedom

Lincoln's stance of immediate, federally controlled emancipation

fighting for union but strongly opposed fighting for black freedom

8.

1 point

The Confederate notion that they could do without parties didn't really pan out. They had never named formal parties as the United States did, but what they developed were

"states' rights" versus "willingness to tolerate more central power"

a series of regionally based groups that were modeled after the American Revolution's Committees of Correspondence, who were focused on rooting out Unionist influence in the Confederacy

a quasi-military based government, tasked with securing the peace and keeping the political leaders in check.

parties based on those who felt the Confederacy needed to "Win the War first" vs. those who strove to build a more effective and cohesive government as the prime objective

9.

1 point

The war permanently answered several questions, including all of the following except:

what the former Confederate states had to do to regain full partnership in the Union

the slavery question

the inviolability of the Union

the superiority of central power over local and state governments

10.

1 point

The war was a watershed for African Americans. The _____________ killed slavery for the entire nation.

13th Amendment

14th Amendment

Emancipation Proclamation

15th Amendment