Chapter 9, Section 3 Quiz

Although many farms had converted from cotton to food crops, the collapse of the South's transportation system and the presence of Union troops in several important agricultural areas in the winter of 1862 led to severe _________ in the South?

• food shortages

• restrictions on trade

• tariffs

• unemployment

One of the first all-black regiments to be formed in the Union Army after Antietam was ________?

• the 67th Pennsylvania All-black Volunteers

• the 54th Massachusetts All-black Volunteers

• the 2nd Wisconsin All-black Volunteers

• the 53rd Indiana All-black Volunteers

The leader of the All-black 54th Massachusetts Regiment was _______?

• General George B. McClellan

• General Braxton Bragg

• Colonel Robert G. Shaw

• Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

As a result of the right of African Americans enlisting in the Union Army and Navy, about __________ served in the Union Army alone?

• 20,000

• 75,000

• 83,000

• 180,000

Frederick Douglass believed that serving in the military would help African Americans overcome ___________ that whites held against people of color?

• disease

• poverty

• racial prejudice

• the slaveholders

Southern women and Northern women helped their respective sides by taking on all of the following roles EXCEPT:

• Managing family farms and businesses

• Volunteered to care for the wounded

• Served as military nurses

• Worked as administers in the War Departments in Washington, D.C. and Richmond, VA.

Early in the war, the Confederacy and the Union held prisoner exchanges until ___________?

• Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation

• Lee invaded the North again at Gettysburg, PA

• The Confederate government received helped from Great Britain

• Southerners opened prisoner of war camps

The only man executed at the end of the war for crimes against humanity was the commandant of the Confederate prison camp at Andersonville in Georgia. Who was that man?

• General Irwin McDowell

• Frederick Douglass

• Robert Gould Shaw

• Henry Wirz

It's important to remember that because of the old-fashion medical practices, more men died from __________ than they did from actual bullets during the Civil War.

• drought

• food shortages

• disease

• being separated from their families

By 1863, the North experienced riots too, but they were over the _________?

• food shortages

• draft or conscription

• Emancipation Proclamation

• arming of African Americans in the Union army and navy