HIUS 420 Final Exam Results
The Battle of Chattanooga
all the answers.
was preceded by a large transfer of Union troops from the Army of the Potomac to
Chattanooga.
pitted a Confederate army commanded by General James Longstreet against a Union army
under General Ulysses S. Grant.
was the one of few major battles in the Civil War in which Confederate troops outnumbered
Union.
Question 3
pts
During the 1840s and 1850s the experienced controversy and at least some
degree of division over the issue of slavery.
Methodists.
Baptists.
Presbyterians.
all of the answers.
IncorrectQuestion 4
pts
The business district of Columbia, South Carolina, burned in a large fire that was probably
started by
some of Sherman’s soldiers.
, recently freed slaves.
Hampton’s Confederates just before leaving town.
all of the answers.
Question 5
pts
By mid-July, Sherman’s 1864 campaign in Georgia had been mostly
a series of extremely bloody battles, each having no clear winner, but edging constantly closer
to Richmond and its supply lines.
a series of flanking maneuvers with constant heavy skirmishing and the Confederate army
repeatedly retreating.
an abortive campaign in which the Union force came to be bottled up in a fortified peninsula--
where it was safe but could do the Confederates little harm.
an embarrassing Union retreat after defeat in a battle in which the cadets of Virginia Military
Institute took part on the Confederate side.
Question 6
pts
When in February 1865 Jefferson Davis asked the Confederate Congress to adopt legislation
providing for the enlistment of black soldiers in the Confederate army,
the bill passed with little controversy since many black soldiers were already serving in the
Confederate army.
Former Confederate cabinet member Howell Cobb said: “If slaves will make good soldiers,
our whole theory of slavery is wrong.”
thousands of blacks flocked to the Confederate capitol to demand passage of the bill and
volunteer to fight for the Confederacy.
all of the answers.
The Battle of Chattanooga
all the answers.
was preceded by a large transfer of Union troops from the Army of the Potomac to
Chattanooga.
pitted a Confederate army commanded by General James Longstreet against a Union army
under General Ulysses S. Grant.
was the one of few major battles in the Civil War in which Confederate troops outnumbered
Union.
Question 3
pts
During the 1840s and 1850s the experienced controversy and at least some
degree of division over the issue of slavery.
Methodists.
Baptists.
Presbyterians.
all of the answers.
IncorrectQuestion 4
pts
The business district of Columbia, South Carolina, burned in a large fire that was probably
started by
some of Sherman’s soldiers.
, recently freed slaves.
Hampton’s Confederates just before leaving town.
all of the answers.
Question 5
pts
By mid-July, Sherman’s 1864 campaign in Georgia had been mostly
a series of extremely bloody battles, each having no clear winner, but edging constantly closer
to Richmond and its supply lines.
a series of flanking maneuvers with constant heavy skirmishing and the Confederate army
repeatedly retreating.
an abortive campaign in which the Union force came to be bottled up in a fortified peninsula--
where it was safe but could do the Confederates little harm.
an embarrassing Union retreat after defeat in a battle in which the cadets of Virginia Military
Institute took part on the Confederate side.
Question 6
pts
When in February 1865 Jefferson Davis asked the Confederate Congress to adopt legislation
providing for the enlistment of black soldiers in the Confederate army,
the bill passed with little controversy since many black soldiers were already serving in the
Confederate army.
Former Confederate cabinet member Howell Cobb said: “If slaves will make good soldiers,
our whole theory of slavery is wrong.”
thousands of blacks flocked to the Confederate capitol to demand passage of the bill and
volunteer to fight for the Confederacy.
all of the answers.
