Yes or No

The South suffered more casualties than the North during the Civil War.

Yes or No

Lincoln was assassinated only five days after Lee surrendered to Grant.

Yes or No

Grant allowed Lee to surrender with honor.

Yes or No

The Confederacy survived less than one month after the fall of its capital.

Yes or No

The Civil War was the bloodiest war in American history.

Yes or No

The important siege of Petersburg lasted less than one month.

Yes or No

During his march to Savannah, Sherman placed his army under strict orders not to destroy property or to molest citizens.

Yes or No

During the Wilderness campaign, Grant lost more battles and many more men than Lee.

Yes or No

The Confederacy never won a "decisive" victory that brought a foreign country into the war.

Yes or No

During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln sometimes acted beyond his constitutional powers.

Yes or No

Less than ten percent of the Union army was filled with conscripts.

Yes or No

The independence-minded Confederates adopted conscription before the Union did.

Yes or No

The loss of farm hands during the Civil War devastated agriculture in the North.

Yes or No

The Confederate blockade runners became more and more effective as the Civil War progressed.

Yes or No

The Confederacy suffered from extremely high inflation during the Civil War.

Yes or No

The North suffered more on the "home front" than the South.

Yes or No

Grant won a stunning vicotry at Missionary Ridge when the Union troops advanced up an enemy hill without orders.

Yes or No

The Confederate armies experienced revivals throughout the Civil War.

Yes or No

The Kentucky-Tennessee Campaign was marked by an unbroken series of Union victories from Perryville to Missionary Ridge.

Yes or No

Kentucky remained neutral throughout the Civil War.

Yes or No

Even though Grant was surprised at the Battle of Shiloh, he still managed to win a costly victory.

Yes or No

The Confederates won most of the major battles in the West.

Yes or No

Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson had a strong Christian testimony.

Yes or No

Pickett's Charge was a bloody, last-ditch effort by Confederate troops to win the Battle of Gettysburg.

Yes or No

The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest day of the Civil War.

Yes or No

Lincoln had to dismiss Union generals in both the East and West for poor performance.

Yes or No

With only fifteen thousand troops Jackson prevented fifty thousand federal troops in the Shenandoah Valley from assisting McClellan in his attack on the Confederate capital.

Yes or No

In the spring of 1861 most people in the North expected the war to be over quickly.

Yes or No

The "Anaconda Plan" was a derisive term poking fun at Winfield Scott's plan for a lengthy, difficult war.

Yes or No

The North's basic strategy during the Civil War was to outlast the South's will to fight.

Yes or No

At the outset of the Civil War, the North had vastly superior resources but less talented military leaders than the South.

Yes or No

According to the text, slavery was the primary cause of the Civil War.

Yes or No

The idea of secession was first introduced in 1850 as a result of the controversy over admitting California as a free state.

Which of the following statements about the Wilderness Campaign is false?

-The Army of the Potomac kept advancing despite its losses.

-The North lost more major battles than the South.

-Lincoln dismissed the army general after the campaign.

-The Southern troops were outnumbered during the campaign.

Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation for all of the following reasons except his desire to

-keep Britain out of the war.

-encourage blacks to join the war effort.

-give his troops a noble cause for fighting.

-reduce competition for jobs among Northern factory workers.

Which of the following was not a border state?

-Kentucky

-Maryland

-Missouri

-Tennessee

The South faced all of the following shortages on the home front except

-gold

-food

-clothes

-cotton

Which of the following battles was not related to the Kentucky-Tennessee Campaign?

-Perryville

-Stones River

-Chickamauga

-Antietam

Which of the following battles was not related to the capture of the Mississippi?

-Battle of Missionary Ridge

-capture of Forts Henry and Donelson

-capture of New Orleans

-siege of Vicksburg

Which of the following generals once left the army because of alleged drunkenness?

-Ulysses S. Grant

-Oliver O. Howard

-Thomas J. Jackson

-Robert E. Lee

Which of the following battles was the first clear-cut defeat of the Army of Northern Virginia?

-Battle of Chancellorsville

-Battle of Frederick

-Battle of Gettysburg

-First Battle of Manassas

Which of the following was not true of the Second Battle of Manassas?

-Confederate cavalry raided Union headquarters.

-Jackson's men marched around the Union army.

-The Union's soldiers proved to be great cowards.

-Lee cleared most of Virginia of federal troops.

Which of the following statements about the Peninsular Campaign is false?

-The Army of the Potomac kept advancing despite its losses.

-The North lost more major battles than the South.

-The Union army reached the outskirts of Richmond.

-The Southern troops were outnumbered during the campaign.