REVIEW - Quiz 18.3 - 18.4

Which side had more experienced military leadership?

• Union

• Confederacy

• Neither

Whose work on the battlefield lead to the creation of the American Red Cross.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Clara Barton

• Sally Louisa Thompson

• Harriet Tubman

Which is the best way to describe the Confederate soldiers who surrendered at Vicksburg?

• Out of Ammunition

• Victorious

• Starving

Why did the Union want to control the Mississippi River?

• It would prevent the Confederacy from moving troops into Texas

• It would divide the Confederacy in two

• It would give the Union the port of New Orleans to use

• It would allow the Union to export goods by water.

The __________ called for all Confederate slaves to be freed.

• Copperheads

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Contrabands

• Confederate Army

Which of the following groups would have most likely opposed the Emancipation Proclamation?

• Northern Democrats

• abolitionists

• enslaved people

• Republicans

Who was the Union's commanding officer in the West?

• George McClellan

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

What was the first major Union victory of the Civil War in February 1862?

• Antietam in Maryland

• Fort Donelson in Tennessee

• Vicksburg, Mississippi

• Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

In March of 1863, the North instituted a __________, which is a system of required military service.

• draft
• war campaign

• habeas corpus

• contraband

What was a direct consequence of the Emancipation Proclamation?

• The immediate release of all slaves in the United States.

• The legal end of slavery in the Confederate states.

• The enlistment of African American soldiers in the Union Army.

• The start of the Civil War.