Chapter 14 Quiz

A  Lee recognized the futility of continued fighting.

B  President Jefferson Davis was captured by Union forces.

C  President Jefferson Davis announced the Confederate government was defeated.

D  President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.

E  President Lincoln met President Davis.

A  the Gatling gun became the primary combat weapon.

B  soldiers were forced to carry rudimentary gas masks.

C  organized infantry did not fight in formation.

D  battlefields became more organized.

E  infantry troops began to fight standing in line formations.

A  was decided by a massive assault by Union troops.

B  allowed the North to split the Confederacy in two.

C  put George McClellan back in good standing with President Lincoln.

D  briefly revived the military hopes of the Confederacy.

E  saw a quick Union victory.

A  saw Union General George Meade clearly be more aggressive than Robert E. Lee.

B  represented the last time Confederate forces seriously threatened Union territory.

C  was a Union victory, thanks to Meade having found a copy of Lee’s orders.

D  saw Robert E. Lee poised for victory after his attack on Cemetery Ridge.

E  saw Union General George Meade lose nearly a third of his army.

A  All these answers are correct.

B  saw Robert E. Lee field an army twice the size of the Union forces.

C  both saw Robert E. Lee field an army twice the size of the Union forces, and led President Abraham Lincoln to remove George McClellan from command.

D  led President Abraham Lincoln to remove George McClellan from command.

E  was a significant Confederate victory.

A  500

B  2,000.00

C  4,000.00

D  1,000.00

E  5,000.00

A  President Jefferson Davis developed a reputation for reckless political action.

B  many Southerners resisted efforts by the Davis government to exert its authority.

C  formal political parties quickly developed.

D  the national government was almost completely impotent in its dealings with the states.

E  Southern politicians were strongly united in supporting secession and the war.

A  that joined the Union military.

B  throughout all states that existed as part of the United States prior to the Civil War.

C  in the slave states that had remained loyal to the Union.

D  in the parts of the Confederacy already under Union control.

E  in the parts of the Confederacy still in rebellion.

A  saw little in the way of opposition from the public.

B  proved to be unnecessary in the war effort.

C  severely discouraged voluntary enlistment.

D  resulted in murderous attacks in New York City against free blacks.

E  allowed no provisions for escaping service.

A  after eleven Southern states had seceded.

B  despite the passage of the Crittenden Compromise.

C  after Texas seceded from the Union.

D  in a meeting hall in Washington, D.C.

E  after Fort Sumter fell to forces from seceding states.