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Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

 

48. President Lincoln hoped that a Union victory at Bull Run (Manassas Junction) would

  a. lead to the capture of the Confederate capital at Richmond.
  b. prompt widespread desertions from a despondent Confederate army.
  c. destroy the economy of the South.
  d. pull the Border states out of the Confederacy.
  e. None of these choices are correct.

 

ANSWER:   a
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Bull Run Ends the “Ninety-Day War”

 

49. Arrange the following in chronological order: (A) the Battle of Bull Run, (B) the Battle of Gettysburg, (C) Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, and (D) the Battle of Antietam.

  a. B, C, A, D
  b. D, B, C, A
  c. C, A, D, B
  d. A, B, D, C
  e. A, D, B, C

 

ANSWER:   e
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Bull Run Ends the “Ninety Day War”
The Pivotal Point: Antietam
Lee’s Last Lunge at Gettysburg
Grant Outlasts Lee

 

50. The South’s victory at Bull Run (Manassas Junction)  in 1861

  a. reduced enlistments in the South’s army.
  b. reduced the number of Confederate deserters.
  c. demonstrated how difficult Confederate independence would be.
  d. convinced the South of the need to prepare for a protracted conflict.
  e. did not undermine Northerners belief that military victory in the Civil War would be an easy task to accomplish.

 

ANSWER:   a
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Bull Run Ends the “Ninety-Day War”

 

51. The Union’s defeat in battle at Bull Run in 1861 was better than a victory because

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  a. Ulysses S. Grant took command of the army immediately after the setback.
  b. the defeat caused Northerners to face up to the reality of a long, difficult war.
  c. “Stonewall” Jackson was killed.
  d. it caused Lincoln to replace George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
  e. it allowed European powers the chance to intervene on behalf of the South.

 

ANSWER:   b
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   “Tardy George” McClellan and the Peninsula Campaign

 

52. After assuming command of the Army of the Potomac, General George McClellan made the mistake of

  a. taking too many strategic and tactical risks that endangered his troops.
  b. relying on Lincoln’s military judgment.
  c. being unconcerned about the morale of his troops.
  d. not drilling his troops enough to prepare them for battle.
  e. consistently believing that the enemy outnumbered him.

 

ANSWER:   e
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   “Tardy George” McClellan and the Peninsula Campaign

 

53. George B. McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac, is best described as

  a. disliked by his own men.
  b. aggressive.
  c. overly cautious.
  d. poorly prepared for military leadership.
  e. strategically inept.

 

ANSWER:   c
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   “Tardy George” McClellan and the Peninsula Campaign

 

54. As a result of the Union fighting to a draw militarily at Antietam Creek with Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army

  a. Lincoln named George McClellan commander of the Union forces.
  b. the North decided to fight a war of containment.
  c. Lincoln was now prepared to issue his Emancipation Proclamation.
  d. Lincoln decided that the key to the war was controlling the Mississippi River.
  e. the Union commanders were left without an overall military strategy.

 

ANSWER:   c
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   The Pivotal Point: Antietam

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