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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Grant (February 3, 1865) Lee (February 1865): Chapters 35-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lee see the Southern resistance in the Civil War as representative of?
(a) A fight for freedom from federal authority.
(b) A fight for control of land.
(c) A fight for equality.
(d) A fight to preserve the union.

2. Who may have fought with Grant in Mexico but cannot remember any distinguishing characteristics about Grant?
(a) Lincoln.
(b) Longstreet.
(c) Sherman.
(d) Lee.

3. Who tells Grant that he would have been willing to allow slavery?
(a) Stuart.
(b) Lincoln.
(c) Lee.
(d) Sorrel.

4. What has a far weaker central government than the Union?
(a) Confederation.
(b) Economists.
(c) Liberalists.
(d) Federalists.

5. What issue is emotional and political to Confederates regardless of why the Civil War is being waged?
(a) Power struggles.
(b) The control of lands.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Emancipation of women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of repeating carbines do Sheridan's man have?

2. For mutually beneficial transactions, what were northern and southern troops willing to have temporarily?

3. Who prepares his Confederate cavalry to meet Sheridan's larger force?

4. Who does Grant place before the Mule Shoe?

5. What do the Federal forces NOT have necessarily that is superior to the Confederate forces?

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