Deck 9: The Union Grinds Toward Victory

Question 1

So distraught was Lincoln by the summer of 1864 that he was sure he was going to lose the presidential election later that fall.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The Union committed itself to a war of attrition due to its superior manpower and generalship.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The lack of Union casualties during Grant's successful Overland Campaign boosted Lincoln's confidence in winning reelection.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Andrew Johnson was the only senator from a seceding state not to resign his position.

Question 5

George B. McClellan had the overwhelming support of Union soldiers during the 1864 Presidential election.

Question 6

This Confederate General was the defeated by Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Chattanooga

A) Joseph E. Johnston
B) Nathan Bedford Forrest
C) Braxton Bragg
D) Robert E. Lee

Question 7

This Confederate officer and his bushwhackers massacred pro-Union Jayhawkers living in Lawrence, Kansas on August 21, 1863.

A) John Singleton Mosby
B) William Quantrill
C) William T. Anderson
D) Leonidas Polk

Question 8

Grant's strategy for defeating the Confederacy included which of the following?

A) Landing the Union army in Florida and driving northward
B) Laying siege to the major southern port cities to starve the Confederacy into submission
C) A multi-pronged attack that would drive the Union deep into the South
D) All of the above

Question 9

Which of the following weakened Grant's ability to defeat Lee at the Battle of the Wilderness?

A) Grant's army outnumbered Lee's army
B) The forest cover nullified Grant's artillery
C) Soldiers would be forced to engage in close combat that either side could ill afford
D) All of the above

Question 10

Radical Republicans met at the end of May, 1864 in Ohio to nominate this man as their presidential candidate.

A) Andrew Johnson
B) John C. Fremont
C) Charles Sumner
D) Hannibal Hamlin