Test Bank Campaign Season The Election Of 1864 Chapter 11

Chapter 11: Campaign Season: The Election of 1864

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 1

1) Atlanta was finally taken when ________.

a. the city's defenses were breached

b. Sherman ordered a new round of bombardment

c. the city came close to starvation

d. Confederate forces were drawn away from the city

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 2

2) In the larger picture Sherman believed victory could be won by ________.

a. soft war

b. a huge show of force

d. lenient treatment of the defeated

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 3

3) Of the citizens of Atlanta expelled from the city by Sherman about ________ went north.

a. half

c. three-quarters

d. one-hundredth

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 4

4) The fall of Mobile Bay was significant because it was the last ________.

a. Confederate capital to fall

b. of the Confederate ports on the Mississippi

c. Confederate port on the Gulf of Mexico

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 5

5) The second Valley Campaign was primarily ________.

a. an attack on Confederate resources

c. a holding strategy

d. intended to weaken Southern morale

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 6

6) Fighting in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864 ________ (Map 11.1).

a. was marked by steady Union progress

c. led to a Union retreat

d. eventually led to the fall of Richmond

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 7

7) "The Burning" was an example of ________.

a. a scorched earth campaign

b. soft war

c. classic siege techniques

d. hard war

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 8

8) The National Union party was divided between moderates and abolitionists, just as the ________ had been.

a. Radical Democracy party

b. Democrats

c. Copperheads

d. Republicans

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 9

9) In Figure 11.3 McClellan is portrayed as ________.

a. a poor military leader

b. subservient to Lincoln

c. a Confederate pawn

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 10

10) Which of these was a key theme of Lincoln's supporters in the 1864 presidential campaign?

a. the treachery of Jefferson Davis

b. the brutality of Confederate war tactics

c. the success of wartime reconstruction

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 11

11) Radical Republicans focused on ________ in the 1864 presidential election.

a. African American rights

c. white Southerners' redemption

d. the pace of reconstruction

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 12

12) In Figure 11.5 McClellan is essentially depicted as a ________.

a. Radical Republican

b. traitor

d. savior

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 13

13) The fall of Atlanta had the effect of ________.

a. encouraging the Confederate Copperheads

b. threatening the presidency of Jefferson Davis

c. strengthening Confederate hard-liners

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 14

14) Dissension between the Confederate president and his vice president became outright war in the context of what other conflict?

a. the Shenandoah Valley Campaign

b. the 1864 Union election

d. Sherman's March to the Sea

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 15

15) The election of 1864 gave Lincoln ________

a. a weak mandate and his opponents got control of Congress

b. a strong mandate and no change in Congress

c. a weak mandate and control of Congress

d. a strong mandate as president and a majority in Congress

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 16

16) In the 1864 election Lincoln had the support of a(n) ________ soldiers who voted

a. solid majority

c. large minority

d. overwhelming majority

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 17

17) Following the election of 1864 Jefferson Davis ________ his hardline stance towards the Union.

a. developed

b. modified

c. reversed

d. reiterated

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 18

18) Sherman's path to Savannah was up to ________ miles wide.

a. five

b. twenty

c. sixty

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 19

19) Looking at Map 11.3 Sherman's March to the Sea was ________ in its last month.

a. hard fought with several large battles

b. nearly uncontested

d. extremely rapid

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 20

20) Following a strongly held Northern belief Sherman thought his March to the Sea would lead Georgia to ________.

a. free its slaves

b. welcome the Union army

d. support Jefferson Davis

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 21

21) Unlike Nashville and Fredericksburg, Savannah ________.

a. held out against Union forces for weeks

b. was beseiged for months

c. was a key Confederate city

d. surrendered to the Union without a struggle

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 22

22) The destructive fire that destroyed much of Columbia was started to ________.

a. slow Sherman and his troops

b. punish the city for the long siege

c. keep resources out of Union hands

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 23

23) Secretary of War Stanton traveled to Savannah to investigate Sherman's treatment of ________.

a. Union loyalists

b. African Americans

d. Confederate prisoners

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 24

24) Special Field Order No. 15 gave freedpeople ________.

a. forty acre plots of abandoned land

c. voting rights

d. confirmation of the Emancipation Proclamation

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11, Question 25

25) It is likely that Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15 was ________.

a. inspired by Sherman's racial beliefs

b. intended to begin reshaping the South's class system

c. a political move aimed at Jefferson Davis

d. a practical solution to his current problem