Chapter 22 Practice Test

Lincoln’s “Anaconda Plan” for  winning the war called for all of the following except   

• A blockade of southern ports to cut off shipping.

• Dividing the South into sections to weaken the Confederacy.

• Capturing Richmond to destroy the Confederate government.

• Assassinating Jefferson Davis to leave the Confederacy without a leader.

The terms of surrender General Grant offered to General Lee were designed to 

• End the war without causing further suffering or hatred.

• To be free. convince northerners that the heavy costs of the war were justified.

• Punish southerners who had fought for the Confederacy.

• Continue his policy of accepting nothing less than unconditional surrender.

The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the war because

• It triggered a four-day draft riot in New York City.

• The outcome convinced European nations to help the Confederacy.

• Southern troops reached their northernmost point in Union territory.

• Lee lost so many troops that he would never again invade the North.

When the Civil War began,

• both sides were prepared for a long and drawn-out war.

• The South's greatest strength was it's military leadership.

• Southerners believed they could win by capturing Washington, D.C

• northerners were reluctant to volunteer for military service.

Hopes on both sides for a quick victory ended with the..

• Battle between the Merrimac and the Monitor.

• Battle of Gettysburg.

• Battle of Bull Run.

• Battle of Antietam.

General Tecumseh Sherman’s march through Georgia was

• A defeat for both armies.

• An example of total war.

• The bloodiest battle of the war.

• A turning point in the war.

• When the Civil War began, the North had an advantage in terms of towns and cities.

• The South's main economic strength came from it's cotton exports.

• The contrast between the North and the South was greatest in terms of land area.

• Population became an important resource in warfare for the first time during the Civil War.

• From the chart, one might conclude that the North could raise an arm five times larger than the South.

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation declared

• All slaves to be forever free.

• Slaves in the Union slave states to be free.

• Slaves in the Confederate states to be free.

• Slaves in the U.S. territories to be free.

Lewis Douglass, one of Frederick Douglass’s two sons in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, wrote this letter to his fiancée:  My Dear Amelia:  I have been in two fights, and am unhurt. I am about to go in another I believe to-  night. Our men fought well on both occasions. The last was desperate—we charged  that terrible battery on Morris Island known as Fort Wagner…Should I fall in the next  fight killed or wounded I hope to fall with my face to the foe….  This regiment has established its reputation as a fighting regiment, not a man  flinched, though it was a trying time. Men fell all around me. Ashell would explode and clear a space of twenty feet. Our men would close up again, but it was no use—  we had to retreat, which was a very hazardous undertaking. How I got out of the fight  alive I cannot tell, but I am here. My Dear girl I hope again to see you. I must bid  you farewell should I be killed. Remember I die in a good cause. I wish we had a  hundred thousand colored troops—we would put an end to this war. Good Bye to all.  Your own loving Lewis 

• This letter was written during the battle of Atietam.

• The word battery is used in this passage to mean a set of guns or other heavy artillery.

• Douglass hoped for if he died in battle to die attacking, not retreating.

• Douglass saw men proving they could fight as the most important result of his regiment's first two fights.

• The passage is an example of an opinion piece written to express the author's views.