Author Question: What did the term contraband mean to Union commanders? A) escaped slaves reaching Union lines B) ... (Read 93 times)

ericka1 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Northern Copperheads were:

A) Democrats who supported the war.
B) Republicans who supported the war.
C) Republicans who favored a negotiated peace with the South.
D) Democrats who favored a negotiated peace with the South.

Question 2

Government girls referred to women who were:

A) Confederate nurses.
B) clerks in the Union Department of War.
C) widows and orphans.
D) workers in the Confederate bureaucracy.

Question 3

All of the following were instrumental in organizing the profession of nursing EXCEPT:

A) Harriet Beecher Stowe
B) Dorothea Dix
C) Mother Bickerdyke
D) Clara Barton

Question 4

The use of women in the nursing profession met resistance largely because:

A) women were too physically weak for such work.
B) it was considered a job only disreputable women would do.
C) women were not used to tending the sick.
D) wounded soldiers resented them.

Question 5

Which of the following was MOST likely to serve as a substitute for a northern conscript in the war?

A) an Irish immigrant
B) a black servant
C) a journeyman printer
D) a seaboard shopkeeper

Question 6

What did the term contraband mean to Union commanders?

A) escaped slaves reaching Union lines
B) any Southern property produced by slave labor
C) civilian property not offered for sale to the Army
D) British arms sold to the Confederacy