Test Bank Varon Ripe For The Harvest To Shiloh Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Ripe for the Harvest: To Shiloh

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 1

1) In late 1861 Jefferson Davis sent ambassadors to gain recognition from what two nations?

a. England and France

c. France and the Netherlands

d. Spain and the Netherlands

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 2

2) By early 1862 the rupture of the Mason-Slidell affair ________ relations between Britain and the Union.

a. had embittered

b. appeared to have done no lasting damage to

d. was still threatening

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 3

3) Unlike Union enlistments Confederate enlistment periods were initially for ________.

a. one year

c. three months

d. two years

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 4

4) Which of these was introduced in 1862 by the Confederacy for the first time in American history?

a. state-level conscription

b. an income tax

c. a national draft

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 5

5) Which of these men was made general-in-chief of the Union armies in 1862.

a. George McClellan

c. Winfield Scott

d. Ulysses Grant

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 6

6) Looking at Map 2.1, which of these was the culmination and key goal of the Union attacks on Confederate coastal defense?

a. New Orleans

c. Port Royal

d. Charleston

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 7

7) Which of these describe McClellan's strategy early in 1862?

a. a decisive strike against Virginia to end the war quickly

c. a war of attrition moving through Kentucky to control the Mississippi

d. pursuing the anaconda plan

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 8

8) McClellan's response to General War Order No. 1 had the effect of ________ relations between the president and McClellan.

a. worsening

c. inflaming

d. ending

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 9

9) The image "East Tennessee Unionism" fed Northerners' firmly held belief that ________ in the Confederacy.

a. poor whites supported the Slave Power

b. abolition would be warmly welcomed

c. the war would last longer than expected

d. pro-Union feeling was strong

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 10

10) The Confederacy experienced two important checks in 1862 in what region?

a. the Mississippi

b. the west

d. the Atlantic

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 11

11) Which of these were the key to the Union victory on the second day at Shiloh?

a. cavalry

b. infantry

c. ships

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 12

12) By the end of the first day of fighting, the Confederates felt their position was ________.

a. very strong

c. holding

d. desperate

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 13

13) The fighting at Shiloh ________ impressions of the brutality of Civil War fighting established at First Bull Run.

a. mitigated

b. ended

c. continued

d. deepened

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 14

14) The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) contributed to the Union's ________.

a. supply and medical logistics

b. armaments

d. military strategy

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 15

15) It is most accurate to say that by the 1860s women's work in the medical fields was ________.

a. a novelty

b. banned

c. controversial

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 16

16) Compared to the USSC medical care in the Confederacy was ________.

a. decentralized

c. more professionalized

d. similarly organized

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 17

17) Julia Ward Howe's new lyrics to "John Brown's Body" gave the tune a more ________ tone.

a. abolitionist

b. partisan

c. patriotic

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 18

18) The image "Songs of War" was the work of what prominent American artist?

a. Julia Ward Howe

b. Frederick Remington

c. Winslow Homer

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 19

19) As in other areas of popular culture the theme of ________ was dominant in war-era songs.

a. security

b. deliverance

d. freedom

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 20

20) The Confederates perpetuated the myth that Maryland was ________.

a. on the brink of joining the Confederacy

b. covertly part of the Confederacy

c. truly part of the Confederacy

d. forced into staying in the Union

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 21

21) In 1862 slavery was abolished ________.

a. in Washington, D.C.

c. in border and Confederate states

d. in Confederate states

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 22

22) The proposed compensated emancipation of 1862 was joined with what plan for former slaves?

a. supported employment

b. land grants

c. sponsored emigration

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 23

23) Which of these explains the generally positive reaction to Lincoln's March message concerning emancipation in March 1862?

a. Lincoln's plan for emancipation was moderate.

c. The progress of the war caused Northerners to rally to the president.

d. Support for abolition had grown during the first years of the war.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 24

24) Together, Lincoln's March 1862 message to Congress and the end of slavery in Washington, D.C. were generally received ________ in the Union.

a. as a disaster

b. with riots

c. as the Union's salvation

d. with guarded optimism

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02, Question 25

25) George Stephens came to prominence as an influential black ________.

a. military leader

b. politician

c. doctor

d. war correspondent