Deck 10: Union Victory and African American Freedom

Question 1

By February 1865 President Jefferson Davis advocated the recruiting and arming of black soldiers to fight for the Confederacy.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

John Wilkes Booth's derived his hatred for Lincoln from his years of service in the Confederate army.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Jefferson Davis went to trial for treason but was acquitted and released by President Johnson on Christmas Day 1868.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Land redistribution for African Americans was a minor concern in light of the fulfillment of "Sherman's Reservation."

Question 5

How did Frederick Douglass view Lincoln's policies toward emancipation throughout most of the war?

A) Too conservative
B) Too radical
C) Too helpful
D) Too careful

Question 6

What happened at the Hampton Roads Conference?

A) The Confederates offered a plan to ally with the Union to attack the French in Mexico
B) It ended inconclusively
C) Lincoln told the Confederate representatives that he would accept nothing but an unconditional surrender
D) All of the above

Question 7

This poet expressed sadness over Lincoln's death in the poem "O Captain! My Captain."

A) Walt Whitman
B) Frederick Douglass
C) Lydia Maria Child
D) Herman Melville

Question 8

Jefferson Davis was captured in this state.

A) Virginia
B) North Carolina
C) South Carolina
D) Georgia

Question 9

Where did the first "Juneteenth" celebration take place?

A) Galveston, Texas
B) Columbia, South Carolina
C) Baltimore, Maryland
D) Washington, D.C.

Question 10

Radical Republicans in the Senate were determined to codify abolition in the Constitution by which year?

A) 1861
B) 1862
C) 1863
D) 1864