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What did the example of German immigrant Marcus Spiegel demonstrate?a. the significant Jewish population in the United States was ambivalent about the issues involved in causing the Civil Warb. While Jews were few in number, their role at the Battle of Gettysburg made military heroes of many of themc. Freedom motivated the immigration of Irish immigrants, but German immigrants of the mid-nineteenth century came to the United States in pursuit of economic success.d. The views of average Americans evolved considerably during the course of the Civil Ware. Democrats were unwilling to go to war with a Republican president in the White HouseThe Union naval blockade was very effective early in the war.Most of those termed "scalawags" during Reconstruction had been:a. owners of the large southern plantations before the Civil Warb. Confederate officers and Confederate government officials during the Civil Warc. enslaved African-Americans before emancipationd. Union soldiers during the war, but then they decided to stay in the Southe. non-slaveholding white farmers from the southern up-country prior to the Civil WarThe Wade-Davis Bill was the Democrats' proposed Reconstruction plan.During Reconstruction, southern state governments helped to finance:a. railroadsb. colonization of freedmen and freedwomenc. interstate roadsd. telegraph linese. canalsCompared to rebels in the rest of world history, the rebels of the defeated Confederacy were treated very harshly.Monitor and Merrimac were:a. nicknames of Generals Grant and Leeb. names of riflesc. steam locomotivesd. ironclad shipse. battle sites in VirginiaOverall, the number of soldiers who died in the Civil War was approximately equivalent to the number of American soldiers who died during World War II.It was clear to most people in the North from the beginning of the war that the war meant the end of slavery.Medical knowledge had made great strides in the first half of the nineteenth century; thus, few soldiers died from wounds, infections, or diseases during the Civil War.Fewer than 50,000 blacks served in the Union army during the war.The Thirteenth Amendment, like the rest of the Constitution to that point, never mentioned the words "slave" or "slavery."Lincoln raised the money to pay for the war mostly through an income tax.In the early days of the war, Union military commanders returned fugitive slaves to their owners.Which of the following best describes the black response to the ending of the Civil War and the coming of freedom?a. Most blacks were content working for wages and not owning their own land because they believed that they had not earned the right to just be given land from the governmentb. Desiring better wages, most blacks moved to the northern cities to seek factory workc. Blacks focused on family and looked for family members who had been separated from them during the slavery erad. Most blacks stayed with their old masters because they were not familiar with any other opportunitiese. Sensing the continued hatred of whites towards them, most blacks wished to move back to AfricaThe New York City draft riots, begun as an attempt to resist the draft, turned into an assault on the city's black population.The Union's manpower advantage over the Confederacy:a. was short-lived once the Confederacy began using slaves as soldiersb. although substantial, did not matter in determining the war's outcomec. proved essential for the success of Grant's attrition strategy d. was rather slighte. existed only because the Union had lower draft requirements than the ConfederacyPerhaps the most important piece of technology used in the Civil War was the: a. rifleb. ironclad shipc. machine gund. field telephone e. primitive hand grenadeAbraham Lincoln realized that his armies had to capture the Confederate capital, Richmond, in order to win the war.Toward the end of the war, the Confederate government:a. signed an alliance with Franceb. turned its economy around by creating more wealthc. used black soldiers to protect Jefferson Davisd. decided to start arming slavese. admitted that slavery was immoral
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