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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, The Same Holy Cause.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which most notorious massacre of black prisoners happened on April 12, 1864?
(a) Plymouth.
(b) Poison Springs.
(c) Fort Pillow.
(d) Port Royal.

2. During the battle of Fredericksburg, from which state was the corporal who wrote his diary that he was sick, and if not for being thought a sneak, he wouldn't be in the ranks that day?
(a) Michigan.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Virginia.

3. At the end of "Chapter 8: The Cause of Liberty," by what year had Northern soldiers broadened their concept of liberty to include black people?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1863.
(d) 1865.

4. While attempting to define the "glorious institutions" that kept men fighting during the Civil War, a soldier from which state defined it as "the guaranty of the rights of property, liberty of action, freedom of thought, religion...that kind of government that shall assure life liberty & the pursuit of happiness"?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Kentucky.

5. During the discussion of the desire to punish treason and "clean out" the rebels, a soldier from which state wrote his sister "I want to fight the rest of my life if necessary"?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Michigan.
(c) Texas.
(d) Wisconsin.

Short Answer Questions

1. As McPherson discusses religion's role in the Civil War, he notes that a lieutenant from New Jersey who fought in the conflict was what religion?

2. From which state was the lieutenant who wrote in March 1862 that he would never "be instrumental in returning a slave to his master in any way shape or manner, I'll die first"?

3. How many children does McPherson report that Jesse Beecher had when he enlisted with the 112th New York in 1862?

4. In 1862, after two friends had been killed in an ambush in the Shenandoah Valley, a soldier from which state wrote "we are to take no prisoners after this"?

5. During the battle of Fair Oaks, Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., swore he would shoot the first man who ran, in which of the following regiments?

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