\n\u201c[William is] . . . wild to be off to Virginia. He so fears that the
\nfighting will be over before he can get there.\u201d
\n\u2013Kate Stone, 1861
\n<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nWritten shortly after the attack on Fort Sumter, this excerpt from a letter by the sister of a Confederate soldier in Louisiana describes his _____ in the war. a. fear of involvement c. reluctance to fight b. eagerness to participate d. slowness to join<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| 34<\/span><\/td>\n | Answer: <\/span>[removed]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\u201c. . . Sis I dont know what you think about the war but I will tell
\nyou what I think and that is the north will nevver whip the south as
\nlong as there is a man left in the south. They fight like wild devles.
\nEver man seems determine to loose the last drop of blood before they
\ngive up but there is no use of you and I talking about the war because
\nwe cant end it, but I dont care how soon it is stopped. Christmas will
\nsoon be here I would like to be at [home.] . . .\u201d
\n\u2013John R. McClure, private in 14th Indiana Volunteers, Letter to his
\nsister, December 19, 1862
\n<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nAccording to the excerpt, Confederate soldiers _____. a. are very courageous c. give up easily b. are poor fighters d. outnumber the Union soldiers<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| 35<\/span><\/td>\n | Answer: <\/span>[removed]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\u201cA cruel, crazy, mad, hopeless panic possessed them. . . . The heat
\nwas awful . . . the men were exhausted\u2014their mouths gaped, their lips
\ncracked and blackened with the powder of the cartridges they had bitten
\noff in the battle, their eyes staring in frenzy.\u201d
\n\u2013Representative Albert Riddle, observing the First Battle of Bull Run
\n<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nThis excerpt describes _____ at the battle of First Battle of Bull Run. a. terrified observers of the battle b. courageous Confederate soldiers c. retreating Union soldiers d. civilians fleeing to Washington, DC<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| 36<\/span><\/td>\n | Answer: <\/span>[removed]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\u201cNo terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.\u201d
\n\u2013at the capture of Fort Donelson, February 16, 1862
\n<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nThis quotation provided a nickname for which new hero of the North? a. Ulysses S. Grant c. David Farragut b. Albert Sidney Johnson d. George McClellan<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| 37<\/span><\/td>\n | Answer: <\/span>[removed]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\u201c. . . It had suddenly appeared to him that perhaps in a battle he
\nmight run. He was forced to admit that as far as war was concerned he
\nknew nothing of himself. . . .
\n \u201cA little panic-fear grew in his mind. As his imagination went
\nforward to a fight, he saw hideous possibilities. . . .\u201d
\n\u2013Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
\n<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nThe character in this excerpt is becoming afraid because he a. knows he will fight hard along with others. b. wishes he were back home. c. is uncertain about how he will react in a battle. d. is eager to get into battle.<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| 38<\/span><\/td>\n | Answer: <\/span>[removed]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\u201cFor my loyalty to my country I have two beautiful names\u2014here I am
\ncalled \u201ctraitor,\u201d farther North a _____
\n \u2013Elizabeth Van Lew, Richmond
\n<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nWhat word best fills in the blank in this quote by Elizabeth Van Lew, who secretly sent information about Confederate activities to President Lincoln? a. \u201cteacher\u201d c. \u201cnurse\u201d b. \u201cspy\u201d d. \u201cconductor\u201d<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| 39<\/span><\/td>\n | Answer: <\/span>[removed]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\u201cIf I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it;
\nand if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if
\nI could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also
\ndo that.\u201d
\n\u2013August 1862
\n<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nWho took this position on the issue of slavery? a. Jefferson Davis c. William Lloyd Garrison b. Abraham Lincoln d. Frederick Douglass<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| 40<\/span><\/td>\n | Answer: <\/span>[removed]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\u201c. . . That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one
\nthousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within
\nany state or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be
\nin rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and
\nforever, free; and the Executive Government of the United States,
\nincluding the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and
\nmaintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to
\nrepress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for
\ntheir actual freedom. . . .\u201d
\n<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nThis announcement by the President of the United States is a quotation from a. the Constitution. c. the Gettysburg Address. b. the Emancipation Proclamation. d. the Thirteenth Amendment.<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| 41<\/span><\/td>\n | Answer: <\/span>[removed]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\u201c. . . That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one
\nthousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within
\nany state or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be
\nin rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and
\nforever, free; and the Executive Government of the United States,
\nincluding the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and
\nmaintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to
\nrepress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for
\ntheir actual freedom. . . .\u201d
\n<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nAccording to this excerpt, anyone holding a person enslaved after January 1, 1863, would be a. arrested and jailed. c. in rebellion against the US. b. given a fair trial. d. recognized by the government.<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| 42<\/span><\/td>\n | Answer: <\/span>[removed]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\u201c[They] will make good soldiers and taking them from the enemy weakens
\nhim in the same proportion they strengthen us.\u201d
\n<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nIn this excerpt from a letter General Grant wrote to President Lincoln, to whom does \u201cThey\u201d refer? a. Native Americans c. African Americans b. Female spies d. slaves on Southern plantations<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| 43<\/span><\/td>\n | Answer: <\/span>[removed]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\u201cDoes anyone wonder [why] so many women die? Grief and constant anxiety
\nkill nearly as many women at home as men are killed on the battle-field.\u201d
\n\u2013Mary Chesnut
\n<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nAbout what do women feel the \u201cgrief and constant anxiety\u201d that this excerpt mentions? a. the difficulty of managing farms and taking care of families b. the exhaustion of working in factories and replacing missing male workers c. the problems of collecting supplies of food and clothing for the war effort. d. the possible death of husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers far from home<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| 44<\/span><\/td>\n | Answer: <\/span>[removed]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\u201cJuly 29, 1864\u2014Sleepless nights. The report is that the Yankees have
\nleft Covington for Macon, . . . to release prisoners held there. They
\nrobbed every house on the road of its provisions [supplies], sometimes
\ntaking every piece of meat, blankets and wearing apparel, silver and arms
\nof every description. They would take silk dresses and put them under
\ntheir saddles, and many other things for which they had no use. Is this
\nthe way to make us love them and their Union? Let the poor people answer
\n[those] whom they have deprived of every mouthful of meat and of their
\nlivestock to make any! Our mills, too, they have burned, destroying an
\nimmense amount of property.\u201d
\n\u2013from the diary of Dolly Sumner Lunt
\n<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nDuring General Sherman\u2019s March to the Sea, described in this excerpt, the object of this destruction was _____. a. to destroy the Confederate army b. to find supplies for the Union army c. to encourage freeing the South\u2019s slaves d. to break the South\u2019s will to fight<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| 45<\/span><\/td>\n | Answer: <\/span>[removed]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\u201cCan you imagine a fellow\u2019s feelings about that time, to have to
\nface thousands of muskets with a prospect of having a bullet put
\nthrough you? If you can, all right; I can\u2019t describe it. I\u2019ve heard
\nsome say that they were not _____ going into a fight, but I think it\u2019s
\nall nonsense. I don\u2019t believe there was ever a man who went into battle
\nbut was _____, more or less. Some will turn pale as a sheet, look wild
\nand ferocious, some will be so excited that they don\u2019t know what they
\nare about while others will be as cool and collected as on other
\noccasions.\u201d
\n\u2013George Sargent, Union soldier
\n<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nWhich word best fill in the blanks for this passage about facing battle? a. confused c. scared b. curious d. calm<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| 46<\/span><\/td>\n | Answer: <\/span>[removed]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\u201cI can\u2019t spare this man. He fights.\u201d
\n\u2013President Abraham Lincoln
\n<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nThis quotation refers to what formerly unpromising army officer? a. George McClellan c. William Tecumseh Sherman b. Ulysses S. Grant d. Ambrose Burnside<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| 47<\/span><\/td>\n | Answer: <\/span>[removed]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\u201c. . . I need not tell the brave survivors of so many hardfought
\nbattles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented
\nto the result from no distrust of them. But, feeling that valor and
\ndevotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss
\nthat may have attended the continuance of the contest, I determined to
\navoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared
\nthem to their countrymen. . . .\u201d
\n\u2013General Robert E. Lee, last order to his troops, April 9, 1865
\n<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nWhich statement best describes why Lee is surrendering? a. Further fighting could not accomplish anything useful and losses would be heavy. b. Lee was tired of fighting and the Confederate armies had suffered very heavy losses. c. The Confederate armies were weary and would not continue to fight any more. d. Ammunition and other supplies for the Confederate troops had run out and could not be replaced.<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| 48<\/span><\/td>\n | Answer: <\/span>[removed]<\/p>\n Referring to the figure, based on the time line, which of the
\nfollowing events did not occur in 1863?
\n a. Red Cross established
\n b. Emancipation Proclamation issued
\n c. Lake Victoria discovered
\n d. Great Expectations published
\n<\/pre>\n![\"\"\/](\"http:\/\/ppstest2.com\/images2\/AR2001.jpg\") <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n| 49<\/span><\/td>\n | Answer: <\/span>[removed]<\/p>\n Referring to the figure, the greatest difference between resources
\nof the North and South in this graph is in which category?
\n a. manufactured goods c. number of farms
\n b. exports d. population
\n<\/pre>\n![\"\"\/](\"http:\/\/ppstest2.com\/images2\/AR2002.jpg\") <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n| 50<\/span><\/td>\n | Answer: <\/span>[removed]<\/p>\n Referring to the Fig. in Question #49, based on the graph, the South was most
\nnearly equal to the North in which of the following resources?
\n a. railroad mileage c. exports
\n b. number of farms d. manufactured goods
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