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Chapter 16 and 17 HOMEWORK
If the statement is true, write "true" on the line. If it is false, change the underlined word or
words to make it true.
1. The first shots of the Civil War were fired when the Confederates seized Fort McHenry, a
U.S. fort on an island in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
2. The Confederacy gained an outstanding military leader when Jefferson Davis resigned from
the U.S. Army to serve in the forces of his native Virginia.
3. The slave states that remained in the Union when the war broke out were known as the
border states because they were located next to states in which slavery was illegal.
4. Because the South's cotton was such an important product in world markets, Southerners
referred to their cotton-based economy as King Cotton.
5. The military strategy developed by Union general Winfield Scott to smother the South's
economy became known as the Union Plan.
6. The first major battle of the Civil War was the First Battle of Bull Run.
7. Why did the North think their strategy of blockading the South would hurt the Confederate
economy?
Choose the letter of the best answer.
8. Which of the following statements is true about military hygiene during the Civil War?
A. Soldiers drilled almost constantly when
C. Most of the officers on both sides showed
they were in camp.
great concern for the welfare of their
troops.
B. The troops had frequent bouts of diarrhea
D. Soldiers on the battlefield sometimes
due to germs in food and water.
went hungry when supply trains failed to
arrive.
9. Which of the following was a new type of military technology introduced in the Civil War?
A. tanks
C. ironclads
B. poison gas
D. All of the above
10. Which group made up the largest number of soldiers in the Civil War?
A. African Americans
C. American-born farmers
B. German and Irish immigrants
D. Native Americans
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11. Which was NOT true of ironclads?
A. Both the North and the South had
ironclads.
B. Ironclads were wooden warships that
were covered with iron.
C. The first ironclad battle ended in a draw.
D. Ironclads allowed the Confederates to
defeat the Union blockade.
12. What kinds of supply problems did each side have early in the war?
Select the letter of the term, name, or phrase that best matches each description. Note: Some
letters may not be used at all. Some may be used more than once.
A. Battle of Antietam
B. Battle of Shiloh
C. Ulysses S. Grant
D. Robert E. Lee
E. George McClellan
F. Seven Days' Battles
13. This was the bloodiest one-day battle ever fought by Americans.
14. He was an important Union general in the West.
15. A Confederate invasion of the North was stopped by this.
16. He was the winning general in the Seven Days' Battles.
17. This battle was won by Grant's forces.
18. He was the commander of the Union army in the East.
19. Lee defeated McClellan here.
20. Lee's troops were defeated here.
21. This battle took place in Tennessee.
22. This fighting saved Richmond from capture by the Union army.
23. Why was the fall of New Orleans a heavy blow to the Confederacy?
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Choose the letter of the best answer.
24. Why did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
A. He wanted to make white Southerners
C. He wanted the slaves to revolt against
angry.
the Confederacy.
B. He decided to end slavery in the United
D. He hoped to weaken the South's ability to
States.
fight the war.
25. Which was NOT true of the Emancipation Proclamation?
A. It freed only a very few slaves.
C. It gave freedom to enslaved persons in
the border states.
B. Some abolitionists criticized it.
D. Some Northern whites opposed it.
26. What resulted from the Emancipation Proclamation?
A. African Americans rushed to enlist in the
C.
Union army.
B. Many Southern whites voluntarily freed
D.
their slaves.
27. What was the 54th Massachusetts regiment?
A. the white army regiment commanded by
abolitionist Frederick Douglass
B. one of the first African-American
regiments organized in the North
28. Which was true of the battle for Fort Wagner?
A. The fort was located in Virginia.
B. Confederate forces were defeated and
suffered huge losses.
The Southern states surrendered, ending
the Civil War.
Thousands of freed slaves flooded
Northern cities.
C. a regiment of escaped slaves from South
Carolina
D. the army unit whose bravery brought the
Union victory at the Battle of Antietam
C. The Massachusetts 54th regiment led the
attack on the fort.
D. All of the above
29. How would the end of slavery in the South have affected the Confederacy's ability to fight
the Civil War?
If the statement is true, write "true" on the line. If it is false, change the underlined word or
words to make it true.
30. To raise troops to fight the war, both sides passed draft laws, also known as bounty laws.
31. Northern Democrats who favored making peace with the South were called Anacondas.
32. To pay the costs of fighting the war, the Union government established an income tax in
the North.
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33. To encourage Northern men to serve in the army, the Union government offered public land
to those who volunteered.
34. Some Northerners protested the draft law in a four-day rampage of violence and
destruction known as the Boston Massacre.
35. During the war, women like Clara Barton collected supplies and provided nursing care for
soldiers on the battlefield.
36. The paper money issued by the Union government during the Civil War was called
greenbacks because of its color.
37. What systems were used by the North and the South to raise troops to fight the war? How
do they compare and contrast?
Select the letter of the term, name, or phrase that best matches each description. Note: Some
letters may not be used at all. Some may be used more than once.
A. Battle of Gettysburg
B. Ulysses S. Grant
C. Robert E. Lee
D. Siege of Vicksburg
E. William Tecumseh Sherman
F. Appomattox Court House
38. He is known for his practice of total war.
39. Victory here gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
40. He commanded the Confederate army at Gettysburg.
41. Grant won a great victory for the Union here.
42. The last major battle in Northern territory occurred here.
43. He commanded the Union forces at Vicksburg.
44. His victory helped Lincoln win re-election in 1864.
45. Pickett's Charge occurred here.
46. Lee surrendered his army here.
47. He accepted the surrender of Lee's army.
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48. How does the practice of total war differ from the other violence and destruction that
occurs during a war?
Choose the letter of the best answer.
49. The person who assassinated President Lincoln was
A. Booker T. Washington.
C. Robert E. Lee.
B. Walt Whitman.
D. John Wilkes Booth.
50. Which of the following is NOT true about the South after the war?
A. It accounted for only 12 percent of the
C. Fifty percent of all farm machinery was
nation's wealth.
destroyed.
B. Its labor system remained undisturbed.
D. Factories and railroads were demolished.
51. The purpose of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was
A. to bring the Civil War to an official close.
C. to end slavery in the United States.
B. to officially admit the Southern states
D. to grant freed slaves the right to vote.
back into the Union.
52. Why was the Thirteenth Amendment necessary?
A. because the Emancipation Proclamation
C. because the Southern states had formed
had not freed all enslaved persons
their own nation
B. because the seceded states had officially
D. because the Southern states refused to
cut their ties with the United States and
give African Americans the right to vote
its Constitution
53. Which is NOT true about the human costs of the Civil War?
A. More Southern soldiers were killed than
C. More Northern soldiers were wounded
Northern soldiers.
than Southern soldiers.
B. A total of more than a half-million
D. About 10 percent of all Americans served
soldiers died.
in either the Union or the Confederate
armies.
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54. What are five ways that the Civil War changed the nation?
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