Exam 13: The Union Severed

The death rate during the Civil War was five times greater than World War II.

The Republican Party completely united behind its war-weary president in the election of 1864.

Unless rebellious states (or parts of states in rebellion) returned to the Union by January 1, 1863, the president would declare their slaves "forever free," according to the ________.

Confederate women played a vital role in caring for the sick and wounded during the war.

The early struggle of the Civil War in the East focused on the capture of ________, the Confederacy's capital and one of the South's most important railroad, industrial, and munitions centers.

In the election of 1864, President Lincoln surprised himself, his party, and the nation by taking 55 percent of the popular vote.

Immigrant workers in eastern cities and those who lived in the southern parts of the Midwest had little sympathy for abolitionism or blacks, supporting the antiwar stance of the Peace Democrats, often referred to as ________.

Historians estimate that southern wealth declined by roughly 43 percent during the war years.

On July 3, 1863, General Robert E. Lee sent about 15,000 men in a gallant but futile assault, known as ________ against the Union center at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Fashionable Washington photographer ________, realizing that the camera was the "eye of history," asked Lincoln for permission to record the war.

The war made it impossible for many northern and southern women to conform to traditional gender roles.

By December of 1864, the Confederate desertion rate topped 50 percent.

Most of the changes experienced by women in war work remained in place after the conflict ended.

Which of the following war measures did southern civilians call into question during the conflict?

Favorable statistics of population and industrial development invariably decide the outcome of a war.

At the end of the war, roughly 30 million African American slaves were free.

When the war ended, approximately 3 million American men had served in the military on both sides.

In Ex parte Merryman, Chief Justice ________ of the Supreme Court ruled that if the public's safety was endangered, only Congress had the right to suspend the writ of habeas corpus.

Originally a U.S. warship, which sank as the federal navy abandoned the Norfolk Navy Yard, the Confederates raised the ________ and covered it with heavy armor.

Winfield Scott, the Union commanding general at the beginning of the Civil War, favored a cautious, long-term strategy known as the ________.