Test Bank Docx Ch.8 Under A Scorching Sun The Summer Of 1863

Chapter 8: Under a Scorching Sun: The Summer of 1863

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8, Question 1

1) Which of these resulted in the Gettysburg Campaign?

a. the fall of Vicksburg

b. Lee's invasion of the North

d. the Union attempt to take Richmond

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 2

2) Lee had given up hope in which of these by summer 1863?

a. the loyalty of the border states to the Confederacy

c. deliverance

d. the significance of the Copperheads in weakening the North

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 3

3) The Army of the Potomac faced off against the Army of Northern Virginia in ________ in late June 1863.

a. Virginia

b. Pennsylvania

d. Maryland

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 4

4) Looking at Map 2.1 Lee's push into Pennsylvania ________.

a. was a success

b. involved an extraordinarily long march

c. was encouraged by a string of victories

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 5

5) The Union and Confederate armies converged on Gettysburg because the town was ________.

a. close to Washington, D.C.

b. symbolically important

c. a Union armament depot

d. a transportation node

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 6

6) Compared to the first day of fighting, the second day of fighting at Gettysburg ________.

a. brought the Union victory

c. was indecisive

d. disappointed the Union in spite of a stalemate

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 7

7) Pickett's Charge can be characterized as ________.

a. a Confederate bloodbath

b. a disaster for the Union

c. victorious

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 8

8) Combined Union and Confederate losses at Gettysburg were ________ casualties.

a. 51,000

c. 32,000

d. 17,000

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 9

9) In May 1863 Grant began ________ Vicksburg.

a. an assault on

b. a siege of

d. to prepare to take

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 10

10) Lee lost ________ of his generals at Gettysburg.

a. half

b. one-third

d. one-tenth

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 11

11) What made the Louisiana Native Guards were unusual among Union forces in 1863?

a. They included black recruits

b. They were made up entirely of freedmen.

c. They included African American officers.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 8, Question 12

12) Which of these was most likely to find their opinions changed by the image of fighting at Port Hudson (Figure 8.4)?

a. Copperheads

b. Moderate Republicans

d. Peace Democrats

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 13

13) The success of regiments like the 9th Louisiana had ________ impact on Confederate racism.

a. little

b. a surprisingly large

c. a moderate

d. no mitigating

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 14

14) The siege of Vicksburg lasted for ________ days.

a. fifteen

b. seven

c. forty-seven

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 15

15) Grant's terms of surrender at Vicksburg were most appreciated by ________.

a. the city's inhabitants

b. Northern audiences

d. Pemberton's troops

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 16

16) Which of these was most likely to have described Gettysburg as "sacrifices of our best and brightest . . . at the shrine of Absolutism"?

a. Radical Republicans

c. War Democrats

d. Copperheads

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 17

17) Which of these was implemented in July 1863?

a. The Habeas Corpus Act

b. The Enrollment Act

d. The Emancipation Proclamation

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 18

18) Which city saw the worst rioting in 1863?

a. Washington, D.C.

b. Pittsburgh

c. Cleveland

d. New York

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 19

19) It is likely that rhetoric such as terming the Union army the "Abolition Army" helped to ________ the riots of July 1863.

a. end

b. calm

c. redirect

d. incite

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 20

20) First- or second-generation immigrants made up about ________ percent of the Union's army.

a. 13

b. 71

c. 43

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 21

21) In Figure 8.7, the participants in the draft riots are portrayed as ________ and their victims are ________.

a. hooligans; African Americans

c. Copperheads; Radical Republicans

d. blacks; whites

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 22

22) Lincoln reacted to the draft riots by making overtures to ________.

a. his political opponents

c. African Americans

d. Irish Americans

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 23

23) As a result of the Combahee expedition ________.

a. the Confederacy lost its position on the Mississippi

b. the Union gained a foothold to South Carolina

d. the Confederacy began to withdraw from the Sea Islands

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 24

24) Like the Combahee expedition Fort Wagner vindicated the use of ________ in the war.

a. gunboats

b. espionage

c. surprise attacks

d. black troops

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Title: Chapter 8, Question 25

25) Which of these aspects of African American service men was applauded most, alongside their bravery?

a. morality

b. faith

c. leadership abilities

d. patriotism