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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the military strategy which orders the complete destruction of enemy property or resources?
(a) A scorched earth policy.
(b) Napoleonic policy.
(c) Maneuver warfare.
(d) Attrition warfare.

2. What does Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles confide in his diary?
(a) He is concerned about the impact of paid servants on the economy.
(b) He is terrified of revolt from Northern facotry workers.
(c) He never feared revolt from Northern citizens.
(d) He fears the Confederacy might win.

3. Why is Nathaniel Bachelder arrested in Chapter 3?
(a) For raising forces for the Confederacy.
(b) For warning recruits they will go to hell.
(c) For bringing illegal goods across picket lines.
(d) For selling alcohol to Union troops.

4. What does General John C. Frymont do in Chapter 2?
(a) Close the New Orleans "State Journal" and declare martial law.
(b) Close the St. Louis "State Journal" and declare martial law.
(c) Shoot citizens in a St. Louis mob.
(d) Arrest 143 rioters in the city of St. Louis.

5. Why does the War Department arrest telegraphers in four major cities in 1864?
(a) They refuse to telegraph a false message from the White House.
(b) They are suspected Confederate sympathizers.
(c) They fear the telegraph system has been compromised.
(d) They are telegraphing Union secrets across Confederate lines.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the War Department arrest John N. Eitel in 1865?

2. When is Abraham Lincoln inaugurated?

3. What decision does Lincoln make on April 27, 1861?

4. Why are judges still issuing writs of habeas corpus in Chapter 3?

5. How are disloyal citizens tried in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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