Introduction Test Questions Varon 1e

Introduction

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 1

1) In beginning of the Civil War Northerners expected a warm welcome from ________ in the Confederacy.

a. plantation owners

b. slaves

c. most non-elite Southerners

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 2

2) Which of these best summarizes the meaning of "deliverance" in the context of this textbook?

a. bringing the Confederacy back into the Union

b. ending a corrupt system that controlled the South

d. bringing abolition to the Confederacy

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 3

3) Which of these grew and developed by developing a critique of the proslavery conspiracy in the South?

a. the Republican Party

c. the Populists

d. the Democrats

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 4

4) In 1860, the idea of secession had ________ in the Southern States.

a. not yet emerged

b. been accepted

c. arisen and been dismissed

d. gained traction

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 5

5) Lincoln's portion of the popular vote in 1860 gave him ________ mandate.

a. a strong

b. a limited

d. no real

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 6

6) In the early months of 1861 ________ shareholding states stayed with the Union.

a. 4

b. 6

c. 8

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 7

7) Which of these was NOT a border state?

a. Maryland

b. Virginia

d. Missouri

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 8

8) The dominant theme of Northern rhetoric concerning the South in 1861 was that the South ________.

a. wanted to destroy the North

b. was economically very similar to the North

c. had forfeited is right to remain in the Union

d. was majority pro-Union

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 9

9) Historical evidence indicates that ________ of all white Southerners were pro-secession in 1861.

a. most

c. almost all

d. only a tiny minority

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 10

10) Which of these was most likely to support abolition as a war aim in the North?

a. a Democrat

b. a Virginian

c. a soldier

d. a Republican

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 11

11) Which of these led Lincoln to employ hard war measures in Maryland in 1861?

a. secessionist-led disturbances

c. the state's secession

d. a hotly contested election

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 12

12) Broadly speaking, Republicans identified with ________ while Democrats identified with ________.

a. expansionism; keeping the US small

b. industrialism; the rural economy

d. tradition; change

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 13

13) Copperheads were ________.

a. southerners favoring secession

b. Democrats favoring abolition

c. northern Democrats against the war

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 14

14) Which of these goals distinguished the Radical Republicans from other Northerners?

a. emancipation

c. support for the Confederacy

d. a quick end to the war

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 15

15) The theme of deliverance ________ in Northern rhetoric over the course of the war.

a. gradually waned

b. emerged

c. remained central

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 16

16) Which of these were planks of the National Union party?

a. sanctions for Confederate states

b. emancipation and amnesty

d. universal manhood suffrage and abolition

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 17

17) As the war progress the notion of deliverance served to ________ Union soldiers' feelings towards Confederates.

a. moderate

c. reverse

d. embitter

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 18

18) Who were respectively associated with "Moses" and "Pharaoh" in Civil War rhetoric?

a. abolitionists; slaveowners

c. Republicans; Democrats

d. Abraham Lincoln; Robert E. Lee

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 19

19) From the outset the Confederacy sought to establish its identity as ________ the North.

a. basically identical to

b. more dedicated to peace

c. essentially distinct from

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 20

20) Which of these was a critical element of Southern and then Confederate rhetoric?

a. Slavery is a necessary evil.

b. Conversion to non-slave labor would enhance the Southern economy.

c. Conversion to non-slave labor would enhance the Southern economy.

d. Slavery is good for all white Southerners.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 21

21) The first wave of seven seceding states, unlike the second wave of four states, ________.

a. lay in the South's eastern half

b. had most of the slaves in the US

d. had a slave economy

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 22

22) Politically, Confederates divided along ________ lines.

a. racial

b. pro- and anti-slavery

c. pro- and anti-government

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 23

23) In the Confederacy political pro-Unionism was ________.

a. allowed but suspected

b. a capital crime

c. common

d. not tolerated

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 24

24) Which of these galvanized Confederate women in supporting the war effort?

a. their adherence to the ideology of slavery as a positive good

b. the war itself

d. their fears of union soldiers

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Introduction, Question 25

25) After the war was won the deliverance rhetoric ________.

a. continued to strengthen the newly reunified nation

b. furnished a new ideology for the rejoined states

c. no longer united the Union