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Question 1

Grant's war strategy could be summed up as:
 
  A) making small, concentrated attacks at predetermined targets.
  B) becoming King of Spades through trench warfare.
  C) relying on artillery rather than troop attack.
  D) find your enemy and keep striking as hard as you can.

Question 2

When Lincoln gave Grant command of all Union forces, he was adopting a policy of:
 
  A) offering the Confederacy easy terms for peace.
  B) forcing the Confederacy to surrender to escape total destruction.
  C) avoiding decisive battles at all cost.
  D) preventing civilian casualties.

Question 3

Sherman's march to Savannah was primarily designed to:
 
  A) make it easier for slaves from the Deep South to escape.
  B) cut Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama off from the rest of the Confederacy.
  C) destroy Confederate coastal ports.
  D) obtain stored cotton for the industrial mills of the North.

Question 4

Lincoln won the election of 1864 because of strong support from:
 
  A) women.
  B) Copperheads.
  C) Radical Republicans.
  D) Union soldiers.

Question 5

As the war dragged on, many in both the North and in the South began to see it as:
 
  A) pointless.
  B) a war to end all wars.
  C) a rich man's war, but a poor man's fight.
  D) an epic moral battle.



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Answer 1

Answer: D

Answer 2

Answer: B

Answer 3

Answer: B

Answer 4

Answer: D

Answer 5

Answer: C



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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again



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