Ch 15, Civil War
1. For what reason did Democrats end up nominating two separate candidates for President in 1860?
2. In what way did the practice of allowing party supporters to campaign on a candidate's behalf inflame sectional tensions?
3. What in the election results dramatically demonstrated to the Southerners their minority status?
4. What was Lincoln willing to support in an attempt to calm southern fears about slavery and encourage them to stay in the Union?
5. For what two reasons was it critical for Lincoln to sustain the loyalty of the border states?
6. In what respect was Lincoln way ahead of his generals in applying the Union advantage of greater numbers?
7. What was McClellan's greatest weakness?
8. For what two reasons did European nations not come to the aid of the South during the Civil War?
9. What two factors were responsible for the high rate of inflation in the South?
10. Identify two elements of the Confederate draft law led many southerners to refer to the war as “a rich mans war but a poor man's fight.”
11. What action taken by the U.S. warship San Jacinto threatened U.S.-British relations?
12. What were British constructing for the Confederacy which threatened peace between the United States and Britain?
13. Identify two acts of Lincoln that led many to accuse him of trying to become a dictator?
14. How did Lincoln react to the Supreme Court decision ruling Lincoln's suspension of the writs of habeas corpus as unconstitutional?
15. What reflected President Lincoln's willingness to distinguish between legitimate dissent in support of the nation in willful attempts to subvert the Union?
16. For what reason did Lincoln wait for battlefield victory to announce his Emancipation Proclamation?
17. Lincoln, as a shrewd politician, knew that a proclamation emancipating slaves on moral grounds would be meet with opposition. How did the president decide to explain the assault on slavery?
18. Why did Lincoln limit the Emancipation Proclamation to those slaves that lived in the Confederacy?
19. For what reason did Abraham Lincoln block attempts by blacks to enlist in Union army?
20. What black regiment acquired fame for its brave assault on Fort Wagner guarding Charleston Harbor?
21. What belief did Irish workers hold in New York City that caused them to riot against the Conscription Act?
22. What did Robert E. Lee hope to accomplish by taking his troops into Pennsylvania?
23. In what way did Grant not follow the practice of other Union generals after being defeated in Virginia?
24. What measure did the South take in an attempt to fill their shortage of soldiers in 1864?
25. What view did Sherman hold of South Carolina that encouraged him to lay waste to anything in his path as he marched through the state?
Ch 16, Reconstruction
27. Identify one of three keys of planter's power that Freedman shrewdly recognized?
28. In what way did the abolition of slavery paradoxically increase the political power of the South, and in turn the Democratic party?
29. What reflected the almost total disregard by Southerners to Northern sensibilities regarding reconstruction?
30. Identify one example in which the Black Codes sought to fashion a labor system that resembled slavery.
31. Identify one example in which a Black Code sought to establish the inferior relationship between freedmen and landowners?
32. In what way were Northerners hypocritical in forcing the black voting rights on the South?
33. What vow did Susan B. Anthony make in rejection to an amendment that enfranchised black males but excluded women?
34. How did the National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association differ in their approaches to achieving national women's suffrage?
35. What’s the difference between a carpetbagger and a scalawag?
36. In what way did Democrats use racism for their own political ends?
37. Identify one fact that disproves the notion that blacks were responsible for the perceived abuses of so-call black reconstruction?
38. For what reason was the coalition of scalawags and black Republicans always shaky?
39. In what way did Southern blacks during Reconstruction sow the seeds of their own political destruction?
40. For what reason did sharecropping proved to be disastrous for most blacks and poor whites?
41. What did the author mean when he stated that the South may have lost the war but won the peace?
42. What primary difference existed between blacks and Indians that gave the former a better chance to adapt to western society and economics?
43. What cultural differences existed between settlers and Indians that ultimately led to conflict?
44. What type of welcome did Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians receive after accepting an invitation from the territorial governor of Colorado for protection at Fort Lyon in 1864?
45. What was responsible for encouraging white settlement in lands that had only five years earlier been set aside as Indian territory?
46. How did the government’s actions in the West make it increasingly hypocritical for Northerners to condemn Southerners for their treatment of blacks?
47. Identify two of seven reasons that contributed to the Northern retreat on Reconstruction?
48. What important concession did Republican presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes make to Southern Democrats in exchange for their support of the findings of Electoral Commission?
49. Identify one of three trends that stripped the rights of black Americans over four decades following the Civil War?
50. Identify one of four reasons why the experiment of Reconstruction not surprisingly failed.