Deck 6: In the Grip of War

Question 1

Some women secretly served as soldiers during the Civil War.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

White women of little means often became nurses because they could afford leisure time.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Pro-Confederate women of New Orleans greeted General Orders, No. 28 with overwhelming approval.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Historians have a wealth of information about African American women due to the fact that many of their writings survived the war.

Question 5

Lincoln made his wishes clear and his thoughts known to Union military leaders, and for the most part deferred to their judgments.

Question 6

The Emancipation Proclamation freed all the slaves residing in the United States.

Question 7

She worked as a nurse during the Civil War and later help found the American Red Cross.

A) Dorothea Dix
B) Esther Hill Hawks
C) Florence Nightingale
D) Clara Barton

Question 8

At the Battle of Antietam General McClellan failed to pursue Lee into which state?

A) Virginia
B) Delaware
C) North Carolina
D) Maryland

Question 9

Lincoln grew frustrated with George McClellan for all but which of the following reasons:

A) Poor leadership
B) Insubordination
C) His tenacious, aggressive, and reckless battlefield strategies
D) His Democratic Party loyalties

Question 10

Lincoln felt the pressure to issue the Emancipation Proclamation from all but one of the following groups:

A) Border states
B) Abolitionists
C) The slaves themselves
D) Radical Republicans

Question 11

From the outbreak of the war, the Democratic Party became identified as the party of which of the following?

A) Rebellion
B) Secession
C) Treason
D) All of the above

Question 12

Democrats criticized Lincoln for all but one of the following reasons:

A) Lapses in the battlefield failures
B) For not suspending habeas corpus
C) For turning the war into a crusade against slavery
D) For imprisoning his harshest critics

Question 13

Salmon P. Chase served in this position in the Lincoln Administration

A) Secretary of War
B) Secretary of the Treasury
C) Secretary of State
D) Secretary of the Navy