Chapter 8

 

·         What was the first state to secede following Lincoln’s election?

o   South Carolina in 1860

·         Pg. 235

·         What did the Crittenden Compromise propose, and did it pass?

o   The continuation of slavery where it already existed thus averting civil war, and no.

·         Pg. 253

·         True or False: The Constitution of 1781 had been ratified by state conventions, and not by popular vote?

o   True

·         Pg. 235

 

Chapter 9

·         What event persuaded 4 states to secede?

o   The fall of Fort Sumter

·         Pg. 276

·         Whose lawyer petitioned the federal circuit court in Baltimore after being arrested for underground confederate activities?

o   John Merryman

·         Pg. 287

·         In October 1861, what did Richmond papers call Robert E. Lee?

o   “Granny Lee” and “Evacuating Lee”

·         Pg. 302

 

Chapter 10

·         Where did Confederate Gen. Jefferson Davis graduate from?

o   West Point

·         Pg. 317

·         In 1860, how many of the eight military colleges were in slave states?

o   Seven

·         Pg. 328

·         By 1862, how many men joined the Union Army?

o   700,000

·         Pg. 322

 

Chapter 11

·         Who was commanding a brigade from the Shenandoah Valley that was said to be a “stern disciplinarian without tolerance for human weakness”?

o   Thomas J. Jackson

·         Pg. 342

·         What did the Yankees call the day after Bull Run?

o   Black Monday

·         Pg. 347

·         How old was McClellan when he became renown in the Mexican war?

o   Twenty

·         Pg. 359

 

Chapter 12

·         What was the South’s principal weapon of foreign policy?

o   Cotton

·         Pg. 383

·         What branch of the Union military achieved some of the most important military successes?

o   Navy

·         Pg. 369

·         What was the main goal of the Confederate foreign policy?

o   To secure diplomatic recognition of the South’s nationhood

·         Pg. 387

 

Chapter 13

·         Who surrendered Fort Donelson to Grant on February 16?

o   Buckner

·         Pg. 402

·         The killed and wounded at Shiloh was nearly double the combined count of what battles?

o   Manassas, Wilson’s Creek, Fort Donelson, and Pea Ridge

·         Pg. 413

·         On May 15, why did the Monitor prove ineffective?

o   The guns couldn’t be elevated enough to hit the batteries on the 90 ft. bluff

·         Pg. 427

 

Chapter 14

·         What was stated in the first conscription law enacted on April 16?

o   All able-bodied white male citizens between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five are liable to service for three years.

·         Pg. 430

·         What congressional act led to the creation of a national currency and altered the monetary structure of the United States?

o   The Legal Tender Act

·         Pg. 447

·         What are the cited examples of what the 37th Congress did to change the course of national life?

o   Legislation to finance the war, Emancipate the slaves, Invest public land in future growth

·         Pg. 452

 

Chapter 15

·         Who described Lee as “cautious and weak under grave responsibility”?

o   McClellan

·         Pg. 461

·         How many men were killed and wounded in the Seven Days’ Battle?

o   Thirty thousand

·         Pg. 471

·         What was a greater threat to the health of Civil War soldiers than enemy weapons?

o   Disease

·         Pg. 487

 

Chapter 16

·         What circumstance gave added force to Lincoln’s first step in the direction of an emancipation policy?

o   The new article of war prohibiting the return of fugitives from army camps even to masters who claimed to be loyal

·         Pg. 498

·         Who said that slavery was “the greatest wrong inflicted on any people”?

o   Lincoln

·         Pg. 508

·         In 1863, where did the United States government sponsor a settlement of 453 colonists?

o   An island near Haiti

·         Pg. 509

Chapter 17

·         Who established the U.S. Military Rail Roads?

o   Stanton

·         Pg. 514

·         What was Antietam called by the South?

o   Sharpsburg

·         Pg. 539

·         The casualties suffered at Antietam were how many more times than that at the Normandy beaches?

o   Four times

·         Pg. 544

 

Chapter 18

o   Who said “I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die”?

o   Lincoln

·         Pg. 555

·         What day did Lincoln issue his Emancipation Proclamation?

o   September 22

·         Pg. 557

·         Who said the Emancipation Proclamation was “an act of immense historic consequence”?

o   William Lloyd Garrison

·         Pg. 558