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Name _________________________
Date ___________________
Civil War Take-Home Test: Due January 28/29, 2013
1. Which side was the first to institute a draft? _________________________________________
2. What were two ways that a Northern draftee could evade the Enrollment Act?
a. _____________________________________________________________________
b. _____________________________________________________________________
3. What was the “20-Negro Law?” ______________________________________________________
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4. What was the Impressment Act? _____________________________________________________
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5. What effect did taxation have on both side’s attempts to raise revenue for the war? ______________
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6. What was the Legal Tender Act? _____________________________________________________
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7. What did the Confederacy’s 1863 “tax-in-kind” call for? __________________________________
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8. During the war, what was the comparative inflation rate (or rise in prices) for:
a. The Union? _________________________________________________________________
b. The Confederacy? ___________________________________________________________
9. What was the National Bank Act of 1863, and what 3 things did it allow? ____________________
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a.____________________________________________________________________________
b.____________________________________________________________________________
c.____________________________________________________________________________
10. What was the overall result of the North’s ability to revolutionize its system of public finance during the
war? ____________________________________________________________________________
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11. How did Lincoln respond to southern sympathizer unrest in Maryland? ________________________
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12. Regarding the border state of Kentucky:
a. How did Lincoln deal with Northern sympathizers in Kentucky? _______________________
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b. What was unusual about Kentucky’s governmental (governor/legislature) composition? _____
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13. What did Chief Justice Taney rule in Ex parte Merryman (1861), and how did Lincoln constitutionally
defend his actions?
a. ___________________________________________________________________________
b. ___________________________________________________________________________
14. What seven innovations did the Civil War introduce to warfare?
a. ___________________________________________________________________________
b. ___________________________________________________________________________
c. ___________________________________________________________________________
d. ___________________________________________________________________________
e. ___________________________________________________________________________
f. ___________________________________________________________________________
g. ___________________________________________________________________________
15. What was:
a. The disparity in population between North and South? _______________________________
b. The percentage of industrial capacity in the North? __________________________________
c. The percentage of railway lines in the North? _______________________________________
16. Name four Southern advantages to Union population and technological superiority that caused Union
advantages to shrink.
a. ___________________________________________________________________________
b. ___________________________________________________________________________
c. ___________________________________________________________________________
d. ___________________________________________________________________________
17. What was the Anaconda Plan? _______________________________________________________
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18. What was the result of the Battle of First Manassas? _____________________________________
19. What was:
a. McClellan’s goal in the Peninsula Campaign? ________________________
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b. The result? __________________________________________________________________
20. What was the tactical result of the battle of Antietam? _____________The Political result?
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21. Who commanded the victorious Union armies at Forts Donelson, Henry, and at Shiloh in the West?
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22. What was the significance of the battle between USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (Merrimac)?
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23. What was the Trent Affair? Why was it an important test for President Lincoln?
24. ___________________________________________________________
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25. What was unusual about the construction of the Confederate ships Alabama and Florida?_________
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26. How did the Emancipation Proclamation affect Europe?_____________________________________
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27. What was Lincoln’s blunt statement regarding the abolition of slavery? __________________________
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28. What effect did the 1862 second Confiscation Act have on slaves? _____________________________
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29. Regarding the Emancipation Proclamation:
a. What did it state? ______________________________________________________________
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34.
What were the five political effects of the Emancipation Proclamation?
b. _____________________________________________________________________________
c. _____________________________________________________________________________
d. _____________________________________________________________________________
e. _____________________________________________________________________________
f. _____________________________________________________________________________
35.What was the role of the Freedman’s Bureau? ____________________________________________
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36. By the war’s end, how many blacks served in the Union Army? ________________________________
37. Why was Vicksburg such a crushing defeat for the Confederacy? ______________________________
38. What did the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 call for?__________________________________
39. What were:
a. The Homestead Act? ______________________________________________________________
b. The Morrill Land Grant Act? _______________________________________________________
40. What were the two forms of dissent within the Confederacy?
a. _______________________________________________________________________________
b. _______________________________________________________________________________
41. Who were the Copperheads? _________________________________________________________
42. What was the Enrollment Act of 1863, and what did it cause in New York? ___________________
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43. Who was Clement L. Vanlandingham, and how did Lincoln deal with him? _____________________
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44.Who was Clara Barton, and what effect did nursing have on women? __________________________
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a.
45What was the keenest disappointment for women’s rights advocates during the war years? _________
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46.How did Lincoln arrange for soldiers to vote for him in the Election of 1864? _________________
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47. What did the 13th Amendment do? _____________________________________________________
48.What characterized Sherman’s march through Georgia? ____________________________________
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49. Where did Lee surrender his army? _____________________________________________________
50. What was the result of the Battle of Gettysburg? ____________________________________________