Chapter 3 Quiz

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What was the goal of the Peninsula campaign?

breaking the Union blockade correct incorrect

control of the Mississippi correct incorrect

Richmond, VA correct incorrect

New Orleans, LA correct incorrect

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McClellan was slow to undertake the offensive in the Peninsula campaign because he ________.

believed he was outnumbered correct incorrect

lost a large portion of his troops on the march to the battle correct incorrect

had lost Lincoln's confidence correct incorrect

had an army half the size of Confederate forces correct incorrect

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Which of these evened the odds for the Confederates in the Peninsula campaign?

artillery correct incorrect

heavy Union losses at Seven Pines correct incorrect

the proximity to Richmond correct incorrect

substantial reinforcements correct incorrect

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In the Shenandoah Valley Stonewall Jackson had the advantage of ________.

a larger army correct incorrect

more experienced troops correct incorrect

knowledge of the area correct incorrect

good weather correct incorrect

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Based on the example of Winchester white Southerners were likely to ________ their bad opinion of Northerners as they came into more contact with them.

modify correct incorrect

become more entrenched in correct incorrect

reverse correct incorrect

maintain correct incorrect

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Oak Grove was the first of the battles of the ________.

Peninsula campaign correct incorrect

Battle of Shiloh correct incorrect

Shenandoah Valley campaign correct incorrect

Seven Days' Battles correct incorrect

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The Richmond Underground was run by ________.

John Minor Botts correct incorrect

Harriet Tubman correct incorrect

William Lloyd Garrison correct incorrect

Elizabeth Van Lew correct incorrect

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As before McClellan hesitated to undertake an offensive because he believed ________.

the suggested strategy was faulty correct incorrect

a defensive position was preferable correct incorrect

his opponent had more troops correct incorrect

his position was indefensible correct incorrect

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By the end of the Seven Days' Battles Confederate casualties were ________ Union casualties.

far less than correct incorrect

about half of correct incorrect

about equal too correct incorrect

far greater than correct incorrect

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For McClellan, as for many Northerners, emancipation was ________.

radical correct incorrect

the only moral solution to the situation correct incorrect

the best way to win the war correct incorrect

not as effective as immediatism correct incorrect

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Writers such as Nathanial Hawthorne and diarists such as Alfred Lewis Castleman confirmed in their writings Northerners' preconceptions about most Southerners' ________.

violent hostility towards the Union correct incorrect

opposition to slavery correct incorrect

welcoming attitude towards them correct incorrect

subjugation to the Slave Power correct incorrect

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The history of the plantation White House illustrates the notion of ________.

rapid deliverance correct incorrect

hard war correct incorrect

Virginia as sacred soil correct incorrect

a war of attrition correct incorrect

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Impressment of slaves in the Virginia Confederacy began officially in ________.

1860 correct incorrect

1862 correct incorrect

1861 correct incorrect

1863 correct incorrect

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Lincoln's concerns about the Second Confiscation Act centered on the act's ________.

rapid emancipation provision correct incorrect

lack of a path back to the Union for Confederate states correct incorrect

potential long-term impact correct incorrect

amnesty provision correct incorrect

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Opposition and support of the Second Confiscation Act in the Union emerged along ________ lines.

political correct incorrect

religious correct incorrect

class correct incorrect

class correct incorrect

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Supporters of the Second Confiscation Act pointed to which of these to support their case?

the failure of the First Confiscation Act correct incorrect

the likelihood that Southerners would welcome the Union advance correct incorrect

Confederate treatment of Southern Unionists correct incorrect

small numbers of runaway slaves reaching Union lines correct incorrect

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The Seven Days' Battles had a(n) ________ impact on passage of the Second Confiscation Act.

overwhelmingly positive correct incorrect

generally positive correct incorrect

generally negative correct incorrect

overwhelmingly negative correct incorrect

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Debate over emancipation in the period following the Second Confiscation Act indicates that Northerners feelings about abolition were ________.

generally skeptical correct incorrect

overwhelmingly in favor correct incorrect

predominantly opposed correct incorrect

generally in favor correct incorrect

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In his meeting with black leaders in August 1862 it is clear that Lincoln ________.

was still hesitating about emancipation correct incorrect

favored gradual compensated emancipation correct incorrect

still supported black emigration correct incorrect

was ready to proceed with immediate emancipation correct incorrect

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It appears likely that Lincoln proposed colonization for free blacks because he believed ________.

colonization was preferred by most African Americans correct incorrect

blacks were an inferior race correct incorrect

colonization would placate Radical Republicans correct incorrect

blacks and whites could not live together correct incorrect