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Higher Level Multiple Choice Questions
Volume I
Chapter Ten, A New Birth of Freedom
1. In what way was the Battle of Gettysburg a turning point in the Civil War?
A. For the first time, Lee had the opportunity to move his troops toward
Washington D.C. without resistance.
B. The battle cleared the way for General Sherman to begin his March to the Sea.
C. The loss led Lee to retreat to Appomattox where he was forced to surrender
to Union forces the next year.
D. It marked the South’s last attack on the North and ended Lee’s hopes for a
key victory that would kill northern morale.
2. General Meade’s biggest error in the days following the Battle of Gettysburg was:
A. his decision not to stop Pickett’s Charge, thus enabling the Confederate forces
to bounce back from their defeat.
B. his failure to defend routes from Pennsylvania to Washington D.C., thus
exposing the capital to attack.
C. his failure to attack and destroy Lee’s retreating army, thus missing a chance
to possibly end the war.
D. his refusal to send troops to aid Grant’s forces at Vicksburg, thus enabling the
South to escape defeat there.
3. Key to the war strategy of General Robert E. Lee was:
A. his belief that the superior numbers of troops at his disposal would help the
South win a war of attrition.
B. his hopes for key victories that would increase northern war weariness and
lead to pressure on Lincoln to sue for peace.
C. his decision to abandon the East because of his belief that the war would be
won in the West.
D. his belief that the best route to a Confederate victory was the use of guerrilla
tactics throughout areas of the South occupied by the Union.
4. What most motivated rioters in New York City in 1863?
A. Anger over the fact that poor men faced the draft while rich men could pay a
fee and be exempt.
B. The belief that the Union had very little chance to win the war in the wake of
recent losses to Confederate forces.
C. Distress over job losses caused by the economic depression that accompanied
the war.
D. The newly passed law by Congress that increased the draft age to 40.
5. Which of the following most closely reflects the meaning Lincoln hoped listeners
would derive from his Gettysburg Address?
A. Now that the war had been won, it was up to the North to rebuild the South
and make it prosperous again.
B. The survival of the American experiment in self-government and equality is
at stake in the war.
C. The Union deaths at Gettysburg must be justified by an all-out effort to defeat
the South.
D. It was now time to grant full-citizenship to former slaves who had been freed
by the Emancipation Proclamation.
6. General Ulysses S. Grant differed from other Union generals in that:
A. he believed the North could win by strengthening the blockade of the South
and causing their civilians to suffer.
B. he tended toward caution so as to avoid a big defeat that would hurt morale
in the North.
C. he was willing to see his army suffer horrible casualties in order to defeat the
South and end the war.
D. he ignored the Confederate capital and instead focused on winning the war
in the West.
7. Which of the following most reflects the sentiments of the Copperheads during
the Civil War?
A. They believed that the Confederate government should arm slaves as a last
ditch effort to win the war.
B. They pushed for one last push by Lee to attack the North and kill the morale
of its citizens.
C. They wanted a punitive war that included total emancipation and civil rights
for the slaves of the South.
D. They believed in ending the war and its incredible suffering by seeking peace
terms with the South.
8. Frederick Douglass lobbied hard for the use of black soldiers in the Union army
because:
A. he knew that without their participation, the Union army would be outnumbered by the Confederate army.
B. he believed that only such a measure would put northern blacks and former
slaves in the South in a position to demand full citizenship in the U.S.
C. he believed this policy would inspire slaves in the South to flee toward the
North in mass numbers.
D. he hoped that as soldiers with the right to vote, they would elect AfricanAmerican leaders to Congress.
9. What was General Sherman’s primary goal in his famous “March to the Sea?”
A. He hoped that by killing civilians, southern leaders would finally be
convinced to surrender.
B. He hoped to put an end to the South’s blockade running efforts.
C. He wanted to bring the war to the people of the South and thus kill their
willingness to continue the war.
D. He hoped that by taking New Orleans, the South could be further deprived of
needed goods from abroad.
10. Which phrases appeared in Lincoln’s second inaugural address in 1865?
A. “bring Confederate leaders to justice,” “all men everywhere will be free”
B. “reconstruct the nation under northern rule,” “use all resources to win the
war at hand”
C. “bring the conquered provinces back into the Union,” “wayward sisters
depart in peace”
D. “just and lasting peace,” “with malice toward none”