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Chapter 17: The Tide of War Turns, 1863-1865
Section 4: The Legacy of the War
Read pages 520-523
Directions: On the line next to each question, write the best answer in PRINTED CAPITAL LETTERS.
_____1.
Which is NOT true about the human costs of the Civil War?
A. More Southern soldiers were killed than Union soldiers.
B. A total of more than half-a-million soldiers died.
C. More Northern soldiers were wounded than Southern soldiers.
D. About 10 percent of all Americans served in either the Union or.the Confederate
armies.
_____2.
Which statement is true about the economic costs of the Civil War?
A. The Civil War cost less than the Revolutionary War.
B. Many years after the war, the federal government was still paying interest on
loans taken out to pay the costs of the war.
C. Because they sold war bonds, all the war debt was paid off by the end of the
war.
D. The North actually made money on the war.
_____3.
Which is NOT true about the South after the war?
A. It accounted for only 12 percent of the nation’s wealth.
B. Its labor system remained undisturbed.
C. Fifty percent of all farm machinery was destroyed.
D. Factories and railroads were demolished.
_____4.
This Amendment outlawed slavery in the United States:
A. 13th Amendment
C. 14th Amendment
B. 10th Amendment
D. 15th Amendment
_____5.
Why was the Thirteenth Amendment necessary?
A. The Emancipation Proclamation had not freed all enslaved persons in the United
States.
B. The seceded states had officially cut their ties with the United States and its
Constitution.
C. The Southern states had formed their own nation.
D. The Southern states refused to give African Americans the right to vote.
_____6.
_____7.
This is the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln:
A. Jefferson Davis
C. John Wilkes Booth
B. Dr. Samuel Mudd
D. Horace Greeley
What significant event took place on April 15, 1865, at 7:22 a.m.?
A. Lee surrendered to Grant, signifying the end of the Civil War.
B. Jefferson Davis was arrested and charged with treason.
C. Lincoln died of a gunshot wound inflicted the night before.
D. All slaves were given their freedom.
_____8.
_____9.
_____10.
In fighting to defend the Union, people came to see the United States as
A. a single nation.
C. a slave nation.
B. a collection of states
D. a dangerous place.
After the war, the federal government
A. grew larger and more powerful.
C. gave its power back to the states.
B. went back to being small and weak.
D. gave no more land to settlers.
Which of these was NOT a long-term effect of the Civil War:
A. growth of industry
C. government more powerful
B. secession of Southern states
D. nation reunited
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Period
Date
Chapter 17: The Tide of War Turns, 1863-1865
Section 4: The Legacy of the War
Read pages 520-523
Directions: On the line next to each question, write the best answer in PRINTED CAPITAL LETTERS.
__A__1.
Which is NOT true about the human costs of the Civil War?
A. More Southern soldiers were killed than Union soldiers.
B. A total of more than half-a-million soldiers died.
C. More Northern soldiers were wounded than Southern soldiers.
D. About 10 percent of all Americans served in either the Union or the Confederate
armies.
__B__2.
Which statement is true about the economic costs of the Civil War?
A. The Civil War cost less than the Revolutionary War.
B. Many years after the war, the federal government was still paying interest on
loans taken out to pay the costs of the war.
C. Because they sold war bonds, all the war debt was paid off by the end of the
war.
D. The North actually made money on the war.
__B___3.
Which is NOT true about the South after the war?
A. It accounted for only 12 percent of the nation’s wealth.
B. Its labor system remained undisturbed.
C. Fifty percent of all farm machinery was destroyed.
D. Factories and railroads were demolished.
__A__4.
This Amendment outlawed slavery in the United States:
A. 13th Amendment
C. 14th Amendment
B. 10th Amendment
D. 15th Amendment
__A__5.
Why was the Thirteenth Amendment necessary?
A. The Emancipation Proclamation had not freed all enslaved persons in the United
States.
B. The seceded states had officially cut their ties with the United States and its
Constitution.
C. The Southern states had formed their own nation.
D. The Southern states refused to give African Americans the right to vote.
__C__6.
__C__7.
This is the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln:
A. Jefferson Davis
C. John Wilkes Booth
B. Dr. Samuel Mudd
D. Horace Greeley
What significant event took place on April 15, 1865, at 7:22 a.m.?
A. Lee surrendered to Grant, signifying the end of the Civil War.
B. Jefferson Davis was arrested and charged with treason.
C. Lincoln died of a gunshot wound inflicted the night before.
D. All slaves were given their freedom.
__A__8.
__A__9.
__B__10.
In fighting to defend the Union, people came to see the United States as
A. a single nation.
C. a slave nation.
B. a collection of states
D. a dangerous place.
After the war, the federal government
A. grew larger and more powerful.
C. gave its power back to the states.
B. went back to being small and weak.
D. gave no more land to settlers.
Which of these was NOT a long-term effect of the Civil War:
A. growth of industry
C. government more powerful
B. secession of Southern states
D. nation reunited