Deck 2: Ripe for the Harvest: To Shiloh

Question 1

In late 1861 Jefferson Davis sent ambassadors to gain recognition from what two nations?

A) England and France
B) Spain and England
C) France and the Netherlands
D) Spain and the Netherlands

Answer 1

A

Question 2

By early 1862 the rupture of the Mason-Slidell affair ________ relations between Britain and the Union.

A) had embittered
B) appeared to have done no lasting damage to
C) had only improved
D) was still threatening

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Unlike Union enlistments Confederate enlistment periods were initially for ________.

A) one year
B) six months
C) three months
D) two years

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of these was introduced in 1862 by the Confederacy for the first time in American history?

A) state-level conscription
B) an income tax
C) a national draft
D) a law prohibiting political dissent

Question 5

Which of these men was made general-in-chief of the Union armies in 1862.

A) George McClellan
B) Ambrose Burnside
C) Winfield Scott
D) Ulysses Grant

Question 6

Looking at Map 2.1, which of these was the culmination and key goal of the Union attacks on Confederate coastal defense?

A) New Orleans
B) Pensacola
C) Port Royal
D) Charleston

Question 7

Which of these describe McClellan's strategy early in 1862?

A) a decisive strike against Virginia to end the war quickly
B) strengthening the naval blockade to starve the Confederacy
C) a war of attrition moving through Kentucky to control the Mississippi
D) pursuing the anaconda plan

Question 8

McClellan's response to General War Order No. 1 had the effect of ________ relations between the president and McClellan.

A) worsening
B) turning
C) inflaming
D) ending

Question 9

The image "East Tennessee Unionism" fed Northerners' firmly held belief that ________ in the Confederacy.

A) poor whites supported the Slave Power
B) abolition would be warmly welcomed
C) the war would last longer than expected
D) pro-Union feeling was strong

Question 10

The Confederacy experienced two important checks in 1862 in what region?

A) the Mississippi
B) the west
C) Virginia
D) the Atlantic

Question 11

Which of these were the key to the Union victory on the second day at Shiloh?

A) cavalry
B) infantry
C) ships
D) reinforcements

Question 12

By the end of the first day of fighting, the Confederates felt their position was ________.

A) very strong
B) weakening
C) holding
D) desperate

Question 13

The fighting at Shiloh ________ impressions of the brutality of Civil War fighting established at First Bull Run.

A) mitigated
B) ended
C) continued
D) deepened

Question 14

The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) contributed to the Union's ________.

A) supply and medical logistics
B) armaments
C) communications
D) military strategy

Question 15

It is most accurate to say that by the 1860s women's work in the medical fields was ________.

A) a novelty
B) banned
C) controversial
D) commonplace

Question 16

Compared to the USSC medical care in the Confederacy was ________.

A) decentralized
B) nonexistent
C) more professionalized
D) similarly organized

Question 17

Julia Ward Howe's new lyrics to "John Brown's Body" gave the tune a more ________ tone.

A) abolitionist
B) partisan
C) patriotic
D) conciliatory

Question 18

The image "Songs of War" was the work of what prominent American artist?

A) Julia Ward Howe
B) Frederick Remington
C) Winslow Homer
D) Albert Bierstadt

Question 19

As in other areas of popular culture the theme of ________ was dominant in war-era songs.

A) security
B) deliverance
C) vengeance
D) freedom

Question 20

The Confederates perpetuated the myth that Maryland was ________.

A) on the brink of joining the Confederacy
B) covertly part of the Confederacy
C) truly part of the Confederacy
D) forced into staying in the Union

Question 21

In 1862 slavery was abolished ________.

A) in Washington, D.C.
B) in the Union
C) in border and Confederate states
D) in Confederate states

Question 22

The proposed compensated emancipation of 1862 was joined with what plan for former slaves?

A) supported employment
B) land grants
C) sponsored emigration
D) resettlement

Question 23

Which of these explains the generally positive reaction to Lincoln's March message concerning emancipation in March 1862?

A) Lincoln's plan for emancipation was moderate.
B) Lincoln's reelection had given him a strong mandate.
C) The progress of the war caused Northerners to rally to the president.
D) Support for abolition had grown during the first years of the war.

Question 24

Together, Lincoln's March 1862 message to Congress and the end of slavery in Washington, D.C. were generally received ________ in the Union.

A) military leader
B) politician
C) doctor
D) war correspondent

Question 25

George Stephens came to prominence as an influential black ________.

A) military leader
B) politician
C) doctor
D) war correspondent