a.

A lack of military leadership

b.

Mustering manpower

c.

Rooting out spies among their ranks

d.

Internal politics

a.

faced a hostile Congress.

b.

ruled by executive proclamation.

c.

wavered on what to do about Southern secession.

d.

focused on international affairs.

a.

The United States was better off without them.

b.

They had committed treason and should be punished.

c.

The two sides needed to work out a peaceful solution to prevent harm from befalling them.

d.

They were good men who had followed bad leaders.

a.

Where to field armies.

b.

Who would command armies.

c.

What to fight for.

d.

How the war would be run

a.

suppressing slave revolts.

b.

selecting a representative government.

c.

getting enough troops.

d.

supplying their troops with weapons and ammunition.

a.

Davis refused to go on the offensive.

b.

Davis proposed to leave some states largely undefended.

c.

they knew the South did not have the resources to fight a long war.

d.

Davis did not propose to take advantage of the Confederate population's genius for defensive warfare.

a.

they claimed it was interference with their right to conduct foreign relations.

b.

it took place in international waters.

c.

Lincoln refused to apologize.

d.

they needed southern cotton.

a.

Thomas J. Jackson's block on the Union advance gained him the nickname "Stonewall."

b.

Union troops panicked under intense cannon fire and fled.

c.

A throng of northern spectators had brought picnic lunches and gathered to watch the battle.

d.

Confederate troops pursued the Union army all the way into the capital.

a.

He was a brilliant battlefield technician.

b.

He understood new technology and applied it to war effectively.

c.

He was able to wage battles with little manpower.

d.

He was very good with organization and discipline.

a.

needed new military leadership on both sides.

b.

would be won quickly by the Confederacy.

c.

would be neither short nor glorious.

d.

would spread south to Mexico.

a.

Some had endured the Trail of Tears and had no particular love for the Union.

b.

They offered to give land back to the Indians.

c.

They promised the Indians black slaves.

d.

They paid them twice as much as the Union Army.

a.

was an effort to split the Confederacy in two.

b.

aimed at capturing the Confederate capital, Richmond.

c.

of the Confederacy almost succeeded at strangling the North.

d.

was popular in the public, but had no support in the Union army.

a.

He was reckless and consistently overextended himself.

b.

He was indecisive and self-promoting.

c.

He had an uncanny ability to read his opponents and predict their moves.

d.

He specialized in rapid movement and in defeating a superior enemy.

a.

The eastern armies went through three generals and made no real progress.

b.

Union victories in the east put the Confederates on the verge of surrender.

c.

Western troops had been forced out of most of their positions.

d.

The fighting in the western theater was indecisive and incompetently led.

a.

proposed that slavery would be abolished once the war was over.

b.

freed slaves in the areas not under Union control.

c.

ended slavery in the border states.

d.

abolished slavery in the United States.

a.

the war had to end with the conquest of the South.

b.

the South would gain European support.

c.

many northerners would lose confidence in his handling of the war.

d.

many poor southerners would desert the Confederate cause.

a.

immediately drafted all men between the ages of 18 and 50.

b.

bypassed state units and brought troops directly into the United States Army.

c.

applied only to African Americans.

d.

allowed draftees to hire a substitute or buy their way out.

a.

offered twenty slaves for every captured confederate soldier.

b.

ordered the execution of twenty slaves for every Confederate soldier killed in battle.

c.

allowed an elite group of 20 former slaves to join the Confederate army.

d.

exempted planters owning more than twenty slaves from military service.

a.

confiscating the estates of northern sympathizers with the Confederacy.

b.

printing paper money that was not backed up by gold or silver.

c.

selling old bonds and then defaulting on them.

d.

enacting higher tariffs to aid manufacturers.

a.

severe inflation.

b.

an economic depression.

c.

rampant stock market speculation.

d.

greater opportunities for free blacks.

a.

could volunteer for noncombatant service in the Union Army.

b.

vocally opposed the war, stating that women's liberation was more important than freeing slaves.

c.

served in much the same capacity as their southern counterparts.

d.

had far less opportunities to contribute to the war effort than southern women.

a.

Ulysses S. Grant.

b.

George McClellan.

c.

Alexander Hays.

d.

Benjamin F. Butler.

a.

They were denied the opportunity to do anything other than menial labor.

b.

They fought in a few secret missions, but there was such an outcry against them that they never got any public recognition.

c.

Their valor helped to change public attitudes on emancipation.

d.

They served in integrated units.

a.

improved dramatically during the war.

b.

depended largely on the efforts of forced laborers.

c.

were much better than at home, where shortages were common.

d.

were plagued by contagious disease.

a.

one of the bloodiest battles in the war.

b.

several houses of prostitution.

c.

a Confederate prison camp.

d.

a failed slave uprising that was brutally suppressed.

a.

offer to emancipate the slaves in return for European recognition.

b.

invade the North.

c.

disperse their troops and fight a guerrilla war.

d.

recruit slaves into the army.

a.

the Union Army received a much-needed infusion of African American troops.

b.

Abraham Lincoln personally commanded Union troops.

c.

Robert E. Lee ordered a foolhardy charge up a steep hill.

d.

the Union suffered its worst defeat of the war.

a.

Jefferson Davis offered to resign as President of the Confederate States.

b.

Union troops routed Robert E. Lee's retreating Confederate Army.

c.

France offered to recognize the Confederacy if it would emancipate its slaves.

d.

the Union took Vicksburg and gained control of the Mississippi River.

a.

Union guns had shelled the city continuously for nearly seven weeks.

b.

The Union attack drove residents into caves and barricaded shelters.

c.

The surrender of Vicksburg only motivated the last Confederate garrison on the Mississippi River at Port Hudson to defeat their Union opposition.

d.

It was starvation and disease that finally subdued the defenders of Vicksburg.

a.

wipe out the Confederate Army in a single climactic battle.

b.

persuade the Confederates to accept a peaceful resolution to the war.

c.

build up his army by encouraging prisoner exchanges with the Confederates.

d.

fight a war of attrition that inflicted enormous casualties on both sides.

a.

a stalemate, with a ten-month siege at Petersburg.

b.

defeat and a humiliating retreat back to northern soil.

c.

the occupation of the Confederate capital of Richmond.

d.

replacing Ulysses Grant as commander of the Army of the Potomac with William T. Sherman.

a.

Lincoln's failure to punish the South.

b.

splitting the Republican vote.

c.

the desire for peace among northerners.

d.

winning in the slave states that remained in the Union.

a.

They thought they could still win the war.

b.

They claimed they had "committed no crime."

c.

It involved freeing their slaves.

d.

They had no intention of ever rejoining the Union.

a.

Andrew Johnson.

b.

Jefferson Davis.

c.

George McClellan.

d.

Ulysses S. Grant.

a.

began to negotiate with Jefferson Davis to find a peaceful end to the war.

b.

announced that he was leaving the army and going into politics.

c.

sent his troops into Georgia to look for the remaining Confederate troops.

d.

launched a march to the sea that destroyed all southern property in his path.

a.

paroled Lee's men and sent them home.

b.

agreed to suspend the Emancipation Proclamation.

c.

required that Lee's men give up their horses and sidearms.

d.

offered pardons to any Confederates who would take a loyalty oath.

a.

Booth was a loner who acted without any accomplices.

b.

Booth was part of a small group of conspirators who were supposed to kill several other high officials.

c.

Booth had close ties to several members of Lincoln's cabinet who wanted Lincoln out of the way for their own ambitions.

d.

Booth was an innocent fallguy for a much larger conspiracy.

a.

very few slaves escaped during the war.

b.

she gives insight into why some blacks supported the Confederacy.

c.

she was one of the few former slaves to record her experiences during the war.

d.

she represented the experiences of free blacks in the South during the Civil War.