Verified Test Bank | Countdown To Jubilee Lincoln’S – Ch5

Chapter 5: Countdown to Jubilee: Lincoln’s Hundred Days

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5, Question 1

1) Which of these did Lincoln issue in September 1862?

a. the Emancipation Proclamation

b. General Order No. 5

c. the Second Confiscation Act

d. the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

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Title: Chapter 5, Question 2

2) The preliminary Emancipation Proclamation would have been valid ONLY in ________.

a. border states

b. Union states

c. Confederate-held states

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Title: Chapter 5, Question 3

3) Which of these is most clearly reflected in Lincoln's preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?

a. ideology

b. political pressure

c. religious beliefs

d. strategy

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5, Question 4

4) For opponents of the Emancipation Proclamation the latter was linked to the suspension of habeas corpus because both measures ________.

a. would lead to conscription

b. expanded presidential authority

d. embittered Northern civilians

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Title: Chapter 5, Question 5

5) Which of these was key in dashing Confederate hopes of cotton diplomacy?

a. the Battle of Antietam

c. the Second Confiscation Act

d. Second Bull Run

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Title: Chapter 5, Question 6

6) Executives of ________ Union or Union-held states endured the proposed Emancipation Proclamation at the Altoona meeting.

a. 3

b. 7

c. 11

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Title: Chapter 5, Question 7

7) In the image "Emancipation as a Military Necessity" which of these have NOT failed to suppress the Confederate rebellion?

a. skill

b. emancipation

d. the draft

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Title: Chapter 5, Question 8

8) General Buckner used the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation to incite ________ in Kentucky.

a. attacks on Union headquarters

b. an uprising by Union loyalists

c. attacks on free African Americans

d. fear of a race war

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Title: Chapter 5, Question 9

9) Which of these led the Confederate campaign to win Tennessee in 1862?

a. Don Carlos Buell

b. Ulysses Grant

c. Braxton Bragg

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5, Question 10

10) Just as in Maryland the Kentucky campaign ended with a ________.

a. long standoff

b. high casualty rate but no clear victory

c. Confederate defeat

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5, Question 11

11) Looking at Map 5.1 the Confederate retreat ________.

a. brought them back to square one

c. placed them in a position to threaten Union troops in Tennessee

d. left them in command in Kentucky

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Title: Chapter 5, Question 12

12) Vicksburg was key to ________.

a. protecting Kentucky

b. the protection of Washington, D.C.

c. control of the Mississippi

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Title: Chapter 5, Question 13

13) Which of these men headed the Union effort to take Vicksburg?

a. Robert Lee

b. David Farragut

c. George McClellan

d. Ulysses Grant

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5, Question 14

14) Lincoln said of ________, "I can't spare this man, he fights."

a. Burnside

b. Grant

d. McClellan

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5, Question 15

15) Following his common pattern McClellan followed Antietam with a period of ________.

a. pursuit of the retreating enemy

b. retreat to his home

c. campaigning for the presidency

d. little action

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5, Question 16

16) In late 1862 the Army of the Potomac had ________ troops.

a. 90,000

b. 45,000

c. 120,000

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Title: Chapter 5, Question 17

17) The Union Fredericksburg campaign stalled while waiting for ________.

a. cavalry

b. gunboats

c. pontoons

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Title: Chapter 5, Question 18

18) In Map 5.2, Longstreet had the advantage of ________.

a. more artillery

b. topography

d. the river's protection

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5, Question 19

19) In the Battle of Fredericksburg, Union casualties were roughly ________ those of the Confederacy.

a. half

b. twice

d. a quarter

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5, Question 20

20) Confederates considered Fredericksburg a ________ and ________ victory.

a. moral and strategic

b. military and moral

d. military and political

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5, Question 21

21) Which of these wrote of her nursing experiences in Hospital Sketches?

a. Louisa May Alcott

c. Elizabeth Blackwell

d. Louisa Lee Schuyler

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5, Question 22

22) In his 1862 Annual Message to Congress Lincoln argued for ________ emancipation.

a. immediate

b. retroactive

c. delaying

d. gradual compensated

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5, Question 23

23) Which of these fears was the 1862 Annual Message intended to allay?

a. Emancipation would bring job competition between whites and blacks.

c. Emancipation would mean economic disaster for the Confederacy.

d. The proposed Emancipation Proclamation was too radical.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5, Question 24

24) From the end of 1862 into 1863 African Americans ________.

a. began to flee to the Union in large numbers

b. anticipated the promulgation of the Emancipation Proclamation

d. feared violence from extreme Democrats

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5, Question 25

25) In "Waiting for the Hour" which of these is symbolized by the tall figure on the right?

a. Insurrection

b. Joy

c. Faith

d. Liberty