Deck 13: Civil War and the Confederacy

Question 1

In beginning of the Civil War Northerners expected a warm welcome from ________ in the Confederacy.

A) plantation owners
B) slaves
C) most non-elite Southerners
D) poor whites and slaves

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of these best summarizes the meaning of "deliverance" in the context of this textbook?

A) bringing the Confederacy back into the Union
B) ending a corrupt system that controlled the South
C) delivering supplies to those displaced by the war
D) bringing abolition to the Confederacy

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of these grew and developed by developing a critique of the proslavery conspiracy in the South?

A) the Republican Party
B) the Whigs
C) the Populists
D) the Democrats

Answer 3

A

Question 4

In 1860, the idea of secession had ________ in the Southern States.

A) not yet emerged
B) been accepted
C) arisen and been dismissed
D) gained traction

Question 5

Lincoln's portion of the popular vote in 1860 gave him ________ mandate.

A) a strong
B) a limited
C) an overwhelming
D) no real

Question 6

In the early months of 1861 ________ shareholding states stayed with the Union.

A) 4
B) 6
C) 8
D) 10

Question 7

The dominant theme of Northern rhetoric concerning the South in 1861 was that the South ________.

A) wanted to destroy the North
B) was economically very similar to the North
C) had forfeited is right to remain in the Union
D) was majority pro-Union

Question 8

Historical evidence indicates that ________ of all white Southerners were pro-secession in 1861.

A) most
B) about half
C) almost all
D) only a tiny minority

Question 9

Which of these was most likely to support abolition as a war aim in the North?

A) a Democrat
B) a Virginian
C) a soldier
D) a Republican

Question 10

Which of these led Lincoln to employ hard war measures in Maryland in 1861?

A) secessionist-led disturbances
B) a Confederate invasion of the state
C) the state's secession
D) a hotly contested election

Question 11

Broadly speaking, Republicans identified with ________ while Democrats identified with ________.

A) expansionism; keeping the US small
B) industrialism; the rural economy
C) Christian values; science
D) tradition; change

Question 12

Copperheads were ________.

A) southerners favoring secession
B) Democrats favoring abolition
C) northern Democrats against the war
D) southerners in favor of rejoining the Union

Question 13

Which of these goals distinguished the Radical Republicans from other Northerners?

A) emancipation
B) destruction of the Confederacy
C) support for the Confederacy
D) a quick end to the war

Question 14

The theme of deliverance ________ in Northern rhetoric over the course of the war.

A) gradually waned
B) emerged
C) remained central
D) played an insignificant role

Question 15

Which of these were planks of the National Union party?

A) sanctions for Confederate states
B) emancipation and amnesty
C) westward expansion and readmission of Confederate states
D) universal manhood suffrage and abolition

Question 16

As the war progress the notion of deliverance served to ________ Union soldiers' feelings towards Confederates.

A) moderate
B) enflame
C) reverse
D) embitter

Question 17

Who were respectively associated with "Moses" and "Pharaoh" in Civil War rhetoric?

A) abolitionists; slaveowners
B) Frederick Douglass; Harriet Tubman
C) Republicans; Democrats
D) Abraham Lincoln; Robert

Question 18

From the outset the Confederacy sought to establish its identity as ________ the North.

A) basically identical to
B) more dedicated to peace
C) essentially distinct from
D) more advanced than

Question 19

Which of these was a critical element of Southern and then Confederate rhetoric?

A) Slavery is a necessary evil.
B) Conversion to non-slave labor would enhance the Southern economy.
C) Conversion to non-slave labor would enhance the Southern economy.
D) Slavery is good for all white Southerners.

Question 20

The first wave of seven seceding states, unlike the second wave of four states, ________.

A) lay in the South's eastern half
B) had most of the slaves in the US
C) some of the oldest states in the US
D) had a slave economy

Question 21

Politically, Confederates divided along ________ lines.

A) racial
B) pro- and anti-slavery
C) pro- and anti-government
D) party

Question 22

In the Confederacy political pro-Unionism was ________.

A) allowed but suspected
B) a capital crime
C) common
D) not tolerated

Question 23

Which of these galvanized Confederate women in supporting the war effort?

A) their adherence to the ideology of slavery as a positive good
B) the war itself
C) a longstanding tradition of Southern women's fidelity to their states
D) their fears of union soldiers

Question 24

After the war was won the deliverance rhetoric ________.

A) continued to strengthen the newly reunified nation
B) furnished a new ideology for the rejoined states
C) no longer united the Union
D) hastened the readmission of former Confederate states