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The American Civil War – Test 1 I. True or False: Please indicate whether the following statements are true or false by placing a check mark next to the appropriate response. a. South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky were among the 11 states that seceded from the union known as the United States of America in 1861. (5 pts.) i. ___ true ii. ___ false b. The first inauguration of Abraham Lincoln as 16th president of the United States took place after the southern states had begun to secede from the Union. (5 pts.) i. ___ true ii. ___ false c. Abraham Lincoln was from a slaveholding family. (5 pts.) i. ___ true ii. ___ false d. Mary Todd Lincoln was from a slaveholding family. (5 pts.) i. ___ true ii. ___ false e. General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate Army, expressed deep bitterness toward his rival, General Ulysses S. Grant, after surrendering to the Union forces. (5 pts.) i. ___ true ii. ___ false II. Multiple Choice: Read the following quotes and circle the Roman numeral next to the name of the person with whom this quote is most often associated: a. “ ‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave half free.” (5 pts.) i. Jefferson Davis ii. Harriet Beecher Stowe iii. Abraham Lincoln iv. Ulysses S. Grant b. “It was at his dying bed and at his grave that I learned what a poor slave mother may feel when her child is torn away from her. In those depths of sorrow, which seemed to me immeasurable, it was my only prayer to God that such anguish might not be suffered in vain.” (5 pts.) i. Mary Todd Lincoln ii. Harriet Beecher Stowe iii. Susan B. Anthony iv. Harriet Tubman c. “There can be no freedom of trade where there is no freedom of man, for the first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed.” (5 pts.) i. Stephen Douglas ii. Frederick Douglass iii. Henry Carey iv. W.E.B. Dubois III. Multiple answers: Please answer the following questions by circling the Roman numeral next to all of the appropriate answers. a. Which of the following immigrant groups are known to have fought for the Union during the Civil War? (10 pts) i. Italians ii. Hungarians iii. Chinese iv. Vietnamese b. Women were influential in the fight to end slavery. Which of the following women openly fought for a constitutional amendment to end slavery, and later fought for equal rights for all women? (10 pts.) i. Harriet Beecher Stowe ii. Elizabeth Cady Stanton iii. Rose O’Neal Greenhow iv. Susan B. Anthony c. Which of the following slaveholding states remained loyal to the Union? (10 pts.) i. Kentucky ii. Delaware iii. Florida iv. Arkansas IV. Short-answer questions: Give a short answer to the following questions. It is not necessary to write your answer in a complete sentence. a. What is the name of the man who served as president of the Confederate States? (5 pts.) b. What state was created when Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861? (5 pts.) V. Matching: Abraham Lincoln made several memorable speeches before, during and after the Civil War. Match the name of Lincoln’s speech to the place and year it was given by drawing a line between the matching items in the two columns below. (15 pts.) Lyceum Address Philadelphia, PA, 1861 Gettysburg Address New York, NY, 1860 “House Divided” Speech Springfield, IL 1838 Cooper Union Address Springfield, IL, 1858 Address in Independence Hall Gettysburg, PA, 1863 VI. Essay Question: Write a 3-4 paragraph essay addressing the following question: How was the economy of the South different from the economy of the North, and what role did this difference play in the development of the war? VII. Calculated Question: It is important to have some idea of the number of Confederate soldiers who came from slaveholding families, since these soldiers had a greater stake in the outcome of the war than those from nonslaveholding families. The figures available to calculate this estimate vary considerably depending on the expert and that archive from which they are taken. According to some experts, the number of soldiers in the Confederate Army is estimated to be 600,000 and the percentage of soldiers from slaveholding families is estimated to be 30%. If this were the case, how many soldiers in the Confederate Army would come from slaveholding families? You may do your calculation and place your answer in the space below.