History of the Americas Questions
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True or False: At the Democratic party convention of 1864, the openly antiwar Copperheads enjoyed little influence.
True or False: The Northern Democrats were deeply divided between War Democrats who supported the war effort and peace Democrats who sought a negotiated settlement with the South.
True or False: The Northern victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg effectively spelled doom for the Confederacy's efforts to win its independence on the battlefield.
True or False: In the final year of the conflict, Grant and Sherman waged a total war that aimed to destroy the South's economy and morale as well as defeat its armies.
Cause and Effect: Lincoln's careful use of moral suasion, politics, and military force
Helped transform nursing into a respected profession during the Civil War.
Leader whose conflict with states' rights advocates and rigid personality harmed his ability to mobilize and direct his nation's war effort.
Popular term for the paper currency that was issued by the wartime Union government to help finance the war.
True or False: Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania in 1863 was intended to win the war by encouraging the Northern peace movement and bringing foreign intervention on behalf of the Confederacy.
Federal law of 1862 that offered free land in the West to pioneers willing to settle on it, even during the Civil War.
Violent protests by laregly Irish working class citizens against being forced to serve in a war against slavery that they opposed.
Head of a major New York bank that marketed war bonds for the Union government at a profit.
Union agency organized by Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell and others to provide field hospitals, supplies, and nurses to U.S. soldiers.
Constitutional protection against arbitrary arrest and imprisonment that was suspended by President Lincoln on the grounds that the Union was at risk of destruction
Slippery French dictator who ignored the Monroe Doctrine by intervening in Mexican politics.
Robert E. Lee's brilliant military assistant for much of the Civil War whose nickname symoblized his strength and determination.
Leading organizer of medical services for the South, who was made a captain in he Confederate army for her efforts.
An Old World aristocrat, manipulated as a puppet in Mexico, who was shot when his puppet-master deserted him.
American envoy whose shrewd diplomacy helped keep Britain neutral during the Civil War.
New profession that Clara Barton and others first opened to many women during the Civil War.