Exam Prep | March Of Redemption From Bull Run To Fort – Ch1

Chapter 1: March of Redemption: From Bull Run to Fort Donelson

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 1

1) Which of these was NOT a key point at the start of the war?

a. keeping the border states in the Union

b. deciding what to do about slaves fleeing to the Union

c. careful choice of military leadership

d. imposition of the draft

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 2

2) For loyal Virginians, "restoring" the state meant ________.

a. returning it to the hands of slaveowners

b. abolition in the state

c. reasserting the rights of slaveowners

d. rejoining the Union

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 3

3) The "anaconda plan" was intended to ________ the Confederacy.

a. quickly knock out the capital of

b. isolate Virginia from the rest of

c. encircle and starve

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 4

4) Which of these was key to the Confederate victory at the First Battle of Bull Run?

a. trains

c. information from spies

d. a cavalry charge

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 5

5) Which of these explain Beauregard's choice of position at First Bull Run?

a. It stood between Manassas Junction and Richmond

c. It controlled a key point on the Potomac River.

d. It protected the junction of the Potomac and key railroads.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 6

6) Which of these is indicated by hospital provisions that cared for the wounded following First Bull Run?

a. Both sides expected a long bloody war.

b. Union resources were already stretched to the limit.

c. Careful planning was paying off.

d. The war was already bloodier than expected.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 7

7) From early in the war, Union and Confederate experiences differed markedly because ________.

a. Their feelings about slavery were diametrically opposed.

b. The Union could only fight a defensive war.

c. Confederate technology and infrastructure could not compare to Union resources.

d. Confederates believed their soil was being invaded

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 8

8) Comparison of the images of Beauregard and McClellan indicates that they ________.

a. had received very different military training

b. shared the same culture

d. would prove to be very different military leaders

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 9

9) For the Confederacy First Bull Run ________.

a. led to a rapid restructuring of their strategy

b. all but spelled defeat

c. confirmed their sense of mission

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 10

10) McClellan's nickname of "Young Napoleon" reflected his ________.

a. ego and military skill

c. stature

d. ambitions as a political figure

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 11

11) McClellan took up command in 1861, proposing ________.

a. an attack on Richmond

c. to concentrate on the western theater

d. a seaward approach through Louisiana

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 12

12) The term "contraband" used to refer to fleeing slaves indicates that the Union considered them ________.

a. freed by their flight

b. unfree

d. hostile

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 13

13) It is most accurate to say that the image "Slave Flight" depicts the refugees as ________.

a. less than human

b. poor but dignified

d. despicable

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 14

14) Congressional voting on the First Confiscation Act would seem to support the idea that the act ________.

a. was sending a clear message from a united Union

b. had the blessing both of Lincoln and of Frederick Douglass

c. reflected the small numbers of Americans that were pro-abolition

d. was written to appeal to a broad range of Northerners

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 15

15) In interpreting and reacting to the First Confiscation Act Confederacy citizens were considerably more ________ than Union citizens.

a. divided

b. unified

d. disheartened

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 16

16) As its descent into guerrilla warfare shows, ________ was deeply divided by Union and Confederacy partisans.

a. Arkansas

b. Delaware

c. Missouri

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 17

17) Looking at Map 1.2, which of these explains why Claiborne took his government to southwestern Missouri?

a. to be closer to the traditional Missouri capital

b. to be closer to a source of reinforcements

d. to reach a railroad

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 18

18) According to Frémont's confiscation statement slaves of Union enemies would be ________.

a. imprisoned

b. returned to their owners

c. exchanged for prisoners of the Confederacy

d. freed

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 19

19) Which of these was the goal of General Order No. 13?

a. concluding the debate about contrabands

b. targeting Union sympathizers in Missouri

c. implementing the First Confiscation Act

d. ending guerrilla warfare in Missouri

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 20

20) Most of the "dissenters" - white southerners who favored emancipation - were from ________.

a. the border states and Upper South

c. Kentucky

d. Virginia

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 21

21) For Moncure Conway the Union's "vile drug" was ________.

a. elitist leadership

b. states' rights

c. slavery

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 22

22) In 1861, like Missouri, Kentucky ________ .

a. was overwhelmingly pro-Confederacy

b. had a Union majority and Confederate-sympathizing governor

d. was divided by guerrilla fighting

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 23

23) Grant's response to the Confederate invasion of Kentucky is best characterized as ________.

a. proportionate

b. defensive

c. cautious

d. ambitious

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 24

24) At Fort Donelson a Confederate weakness was ________.

a. being so far into neutral territory

b. the distance from Confederate territory

c. access afforded Union gunboats by the Cumberland River

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01, Question 25

25) The leader of the victorious attack on Fort Donelson was ________.

a. Ulysses Grant

c. Claiborne Jackson

d. Gideon Pillow