Author Question: Despite being a smashing victory, why did the Battle of Chancellorsville come at a heavy price for ... (Read 56 times)

kellyjaisingh · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Why was there a possibility that the property belonging to Grace Growden Galloway of Philadelphia would be confiscated during the Revolution?

A) She was married to a Loyalist.
B) She permitted British troops to use her home.
C) She had decided to take up the cause of the Patriots against her husband's wishes.
D) She had abandoned her property and fled with her husband.

Question 2

Under the war goals that President Wilson outlined in his Fourteen Points, international crises would be handled by __________.

A) the United States and the Allied Powers
B) a league of nations established at the end of the war
C) individual nations involved in each specific conflict
D) a combination of nations from the former Allied and Central Powers

Question 3

What was ironic about this photograph taken by Army photographer Ron Haeberle of soonto-be executed victims of the 1968 massacre at My Lai?

A) Americans were more outraged with the publication of the photograph rather than the killings
of these villagers.
B) The incident was referred to as a massacre when only a small number of villagers had been
killed.
C) The woman on the left buttoning her blouse had just been raped by the same men who were
getting ready to kill her.
D) The women in this photograph were Vietcong terrorists who had recently killed marines from
the platoons involved this incident.

Question 4

The person responsible for drafting the formal resolution that became the Declaration of Independence was __________.

A) Richard Henry Lee
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) John Adams
D) Thomas Jefferson

Question 5

Despite being a smashing victory, why did the Battle of Chancellorsville come at a heavy price for the Confederacy?

A) General Stonewall Jackson was accidentally killed by his own troops.
B) By focusing efforts at Chancellorsville, the South lost control of the West.
C) It revealed the incompetence of General Robert E. Lee.
D) The Army of Northern Virginia lost half its men.