History of the Americas Questions

The popularity of baseball received its greatest boost fromA. wealthy American entrepreneursB. the American Civil WarC. the Mexican-American WarD. the "industrial boom" of the 1870sE. American expansion in the West

The Emancipation Proclamation was significant in that it​A)​all of the answers below​B)​established the elimination of slavery as a justification for the war​C)​eventually freed thousands of slaves​D)​helped to provide black volunteers for the Union Army​E)​caused the freeing of slaves in border states before the end of the war

The victorious Union commanders who led the final major campaigns of the war wereA) Johnston and LeeB) McClellan and HookerC) Beauregard and JacksonD) Sherman and GrantE) Grant and McClellan

During 1863, the Union forces achieved decisive victories that effectively sealed the fate of the Confederacy in the battles ofA) Bull Run and ShilohB) Fredericksburg and ChancellorsvilleC) Vicksburg and GettysburgD) Petersburg and AtlantaE) Chancellorsville and Petersburg

On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant atA) Washington, D.C.B) RichmondC) Appomattox CourthouseD) Durham, North CarolinaE) Petersburg, Virginia

The First Battle of Bull Run ended inA) the Union occupation of RichmondB) the Confederate capture of Washington, D.C.C) a stunning rout of the Union armyD) the annihilation of the rebel forcesE) a Confederate retreat into western Virginia

The first major Southern city captured by Union forces wasA) RichmondB) AtlantaC) LexingtonD) CharlestonE) New Orleans

By late 1860, the divisive forces that had always existed within the United States were no longer counterbalanced by​A)​all of the answers below​B)​a respect for the Constitution​C)​a romantic vision of America's great national destiny​D)​a stable two-party system​E)​a belief that the federal government was nonthreatening

By the end of 1862, the Union had captured large parts ofA) TexasB) South CarolinaC) MississippiD) VirginiaE) Tennessee

The 1862 Union campaigns in VirginiaA) led to major Union victoriesB) resulted in a frustrating and bloody stalemateC) were of little consequence since little fighting occurredD) were a major disaster for the UnionE) displayed the military genius of George B. McClellan

The Crittenden Compromise contained all of the following provisions exceptA) the preservation of slavery in Washington, D.C.B) a constitutional amendment to guarantee the continued existence of slavery in the current slave statesC) the repeal of fugitive slave lawsD) the reestablishment of the Missouri Compromise lineE) the prohibition of slavery north of the Missouri Compromise line

The victims of mob violence in the New York City draft riots of 1863 were mainlyA) blacksB) Irish immigrantsC) Confederate prisoners of warD) government officials enforcing the draftE) people with business ties to the South

During the Civil War, the U.S. Sanitary Commission was composed ofA) military personnelB) street sweepers and refuse haulersC) a volunteer nursing corpsD) grave diggers and cremation techniciansE) ex-slaves who served as a supply corps

During the Civil War, the U.S. CongressA) passed a federal income tax amendment to the ConstitutionB) created a national banking system that could issue national bank notesC) granted federal lands to the states to help finance hospitalsD) chartered corporations to build the first transcontinental turnpikeE) refused to focus expansion in the West

The Democratic platform of 1864 called forA) vigorous prosecution of the warB) a truce in the Civil WarC) immediate emancipation of all slavesD) the sale by auction of captured rebel propertyE) an increase in defense spending

During the Civil War, the economy of the SouthA) was stimulated greatly by wartime productionB) experienced a net gain, as wartime growth was greater than destructionC) suffered a net loss, as destruction exceeded the substantial growthD) flourished as a result of trade with EnglandE) was devastated by the widespread destruction

At the outset of the war, the North enjoyed all of the following advantages exceptA) a much larger manpower reserveB) a more advanced industrial systemC) a better transportation systemD) twice as many rail lines as the SouthE) a stronger will to fight

The Emancipation Proclamation freedA) all the slaves of the SouthB) only runaway slaves who had reached the NorthC) only the slaves of the SouthD) all the slaves of the South except those already under Union controlE) only those slaves contributing to the Confederate war effort

The greatest source of division in the South wasA) the doctrine of states' rightsB) disagreement over the warC) conscription exemptionsD) the issue of slaveryE) monetary policy

The Confederate war effort wasA) highly centralized on a national basisB) somewhat centralized, but greatly hampered by state governments protecting their states' rightsC) conducted almost entirely by the individual statesD) run by a smoothly functioning combination of the national and state governmentsE) most popular in mountainous regions of the backcountry