Deck 1: March of Redemption: From Bull Run to Fort Donelson

Question 1

Which of these was NOT a key point at the start of the war?

A) keeping the border states in the Union
B) deciding what to do about slaves fleeing to the Union
C) careful choice of military leadership
D) imposition of the draft

Answer 1

D

Question 2

For loyal Virginians, "restoring" the state meant ________.

A) returning it to the hands of slaveowners
B) abolition in the state
C) reasserting the rights of slaveowners
D) rejoining the Union

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The "anaconda plan" was intended to ________ the Confederacy.

A) quickly knock out the capital of
B) isolate Virginia from the rest of
C) encircle and starve
D) destroy railroad hubs and cut off supplies to

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of these was key to the Confederate victory at the First Battle of Bull Run?

A) trains
B) supply boats
C) information from spies
D) a cavalry charge

Question 5

Which of these explain Beauregard's choice of position at First Bull Run?

A) It stood between Manassas Junction and Richmond
B) It lay between Manassas Junction and the likely approach of Union troops.
C) It controlled a key point on the Potomac River.
D) It protected the junction of the Potomac and key railroads.

Question 6

Which of these is indicated by hospital provisions that cared for the wounded following First Bull Run?

A) Both sides expected a long bloody war.
B) Union resources were already stretched to the limit.
C) Careful planning was paying off.
D) The war was already bloodier than expected.

Question 7

From early in the war, Union and Confederate experiences differed markedly because ________.

A) Their feelings about slavery were diametrically opposed.
B) The Union could only fight a defensive war.
C) Confederate technology and infrastructure could not compare to Union resources.
D) Confederates believed their soil was being invaded

Question 8

Comparison of the images of Beauregard and McClellan indicates that they ________.

A) had received very different military training
B) shared the same culture
C) reflected the distinct cultures of the Union and the Confederacy
D) would prove to be very different military leaders

Question 9

For the Confederacy First Bull Run ________.

A) led to a rapid restructuring of their strategy
B) all but spelled defeat
C) confirmed their sense of mission
D) meant the border states would join them

Question 10

McClellan's nickname of "Young Napoleon" reflected his ________.

A) ego and military skill
B) French origins
C) stature
D) ambitions as a political figure

Question 11

McClellan took up command in 1861, proposing ________.

A) an attack on Richmond
B) a series of defenses around Washington, D.C.
C) to concentrate on the western theater
D) a seaward approach through Louisiana

Question 12

The term "contraband" used to refer to fleeing slaves indicates that the Union considered them ________.

A) freed by their flight
B) unfree
C) enemies
D) hostile

Question 13

It is most accurate to say that the image "Slave Flight" depicts the refugees as ________.

A) less than human
B) poor but dignified
C) on the point of starvation
D) despicable

Question 14

Congressional voting on the First Confiscation Act would seem to support the idea that the act ________.

A) was sending a clear message from a united Union
B) had the blessing both of Lincoln and of Frederick Douglass
C) reflected the small numbers of Americans that were pro-abolition
D) was written to appeal to a broad range of Northerners

Question 15

In interpreting and reacting to the First Confiscation Act Confederacy citizens were considerably more ________ than Union citizens.

A) divided
B) unified
C) complaisant
D) disheartened

Question 16

As its descent into guerrilla warfare shows, ________ was deeply divided by Union and Confederacy partisans.

A) Arkansas
B) Delaware
C) Missouri
D) Maryland

Question 17

Looking at Map 1.2, which of these explains why Claiborne took his government to southwestern Missouri?

A) to be closer to the traditional Missouri capital
B) to be closer to a source of reinforcements
C) to use the Missouri River for transport
D) to reach a railroad

Question 18

According to Frémont's confiscation statement slaves of Union enemies would be ________.

A) imprisoned
B) returned to their owners
C) exchanged for prisoners of the Confederacy
D) freed

Question 19

Which of these was the goal of General Order No. 13?

A) concluding the debate about contrabands
B) targeting Union sympathizers in Missouri
C) implementing the First Confiscation Act
D) ending guerrilla warfare in Missouri

Question 20

Most of the "dissenters" - white southerners who favored emancipation - were from ________.

A) border states and Upper South
B) the Lower South
C) Kentucky
D) Virginia

Question 21

For Moncure Conway the Union's "vile drug" was ________.

A) elitist leadership
B) states' rights
C) slavery
D) the plantation economy

Question 22

In 1861, like Missouri, Kentucky ________ .

A) was overwhelmingly pro-Confederacy
B) had a Union majority and Confederate-sympathizing governor
C) remained firmly in the Confederacy
D) was divided by guerrilla fighting

Question 23

Grant's response to the Confederate invasion of Kentucky is best characterized as ________.

A) proportionate
B) defensive
C) cautious
D) ambitious

Question 24

At Fort Donelson a Confederate weakness was ________.

A) being so far into neutral territory
B) the distance from Confederate territory
C) access afforded Union gunboats by the Cumberland River
D) the lack of defenses

Question 25

The leader of the victorious attack on Fort Donelson was ________.

A) Ulysses Grant
B) John Fremont
C) Claiborne Jackson
D) Gideon Pillow