Understanding Military Strategies: Civil War Questions and Answers

Question 1 0 out of 10 points New technologies from the Industrial Revolution like the telegraph, rifled weaponry, and the railroad were making warfare more complex and introduced what new idea? Selected Answer: B. The state could improvise its way to victory in warfare a greater degree. Response Feedback: Incorrect. Please review: Reading, The Days are Gone: Helmuth von Moltke, page 3 Question 2 0 out of 10 points All the following exemplify political interference in General Grant's ability to fight the war except: Selected Answer: A. Grant attacked Richmond via the "overland" route from northern Virginia. Response Feedback: Incorrect. Please review: Reading, The Dynamics of Military Revolution, pages 81-83 Question 3 10 out of 10 points Ulysses S. Grant won important victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in 1862 and Vicksburg in 1863, to sustain his operations in Virginia in 1864-65. He demonstrated great skill in working with whom? Selected Answer: B. The Navy Response Feedback: Correct Question 4

0 out of 10 points How did General Washington's inability to bring the Continental Army up to the tactical and disciplinary standards of the British affect his opinions on engaging in battles? Selected Answer: C. He looked with disdain on avoiding general actions and eschewed the use of raids against the enemy. Response Feedback: Incorrect. Please review: Reading, Makers of Modern Strategy, pages 411 - 412 Question 5 0 out of 10 points What can be stated as accurate about both the Union and the Confederacy's ability to field their respective armies? Selected Answer: B. The Union and Confederate governments both possessed the organization and coercive strength at the national level to build their large armies. Response Feedback: Incorrect. Please review: Reading, The Dynamics of Military Revolution, page 78 Question 6 0 out of 10 points All of the following characterized Sherman's tenure as commanding general of the US Army from 1869 until 1883 except: Selected Answer: B. Oversaw the final campaigns in the West against the Native American tribes. Response Feedback: Incorrect. Please review: Reading, The Days are Gone: Helmuth von Moltke, page 6 Question 7

10 out of 10 points In The Dynamics of Military Revolution, what does historian Mark Grimsley say, in line with Clausewitzian theory, is the "Holy Grail of Warfare?" Selected Answer: B. Supremacy Response Feedback: Correct Question 8 10 out of 10 points According to Mark Grimsley, how was the North able to "generate an asymmetric advantage over the South"? Selected Answer: B. The North discovered how to mobilize its material resources without ruinous political and economic consequences. Response Feedback: Correct Question 9 10 out of 10 points Which of the following is not one of the three military revolutions which evidenced itself during the American Civil War? Selected Answer: B. The impact of private industry Response Feedback: Correct Question 10 0 out of 10 points

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The preponderance of military thought and studies for American soldiers of the early and middle nineteenth century focused on what? Selected Answer: A. Battles of annihilation as envisioned by Dennis Hart Mahan Response Feedback: Incorrect. Please review: Reading, Makers of Modern Strategy, pages 413 - 416 Question 1 10 out of 10 points What can be stated as accurate about both the Union and the Confederacy's ability to field their respective armies? Selected Answer: A. The Union and Confederate War Departments asked their state governors to raise quotas of regiments. Response Feedback: Correct Question 2 0 out of 10 points All of the following are true about "the days are gone", except: Selected Answer: B. There is an increasing popular participation in the waging of war. Response Feedback: Incorrect. Please review: Reading, The Days are Gone: Helmuth von Moltke, page 1 Question 3 10 out of 10 points All the following are true about modifications soldiers made to tactical methods during the American Civil War except: Selected Answer: C.

Open tactical formations were easier to control and often provided opportunities for leaders to motivate their soldiers to move forward. Response Feedback: Correct Question 4 0 out of 10 points General George Washington promoted and conducted of the War of Independence in what manner? Selected Answer: C. In a combination that weaved together guerilla operations and those of regular forces. Response Feedback: Incorrect. Please review: Reading, Makers of Modern Strategy, pages 410 - 411 Question 5 10 out of 10 points Which is an example of the impact of mass politics and industrialization on warfare in the 1864 campaign planned and conducted in Virginia under the direction of General Grant? Selected Answer: C. Grant commanded large armies supported by mobilization of Northern industrial might behind the war effort. Response Feedback: Correct Question 6 0 out of 10 points What was true about an organizational change that manifested itself in The American Civil War? Selected Answer: C.

The need for planning and technical expertise to manage affairs in such a way that maximized the potential of new technologies reinforced the need for professional officers as were available to US land forces during much of the War of 1812. Response Feedback: Incorrect. Please review: Lesson, Revolutionary Effects on the American Civil War: Industrial Effects, page 31-01 Question 7 10 out of 10 points An example of the Confederacy's 1863 "tax-in-kind" policy was what? Selected Answer: B. Taxes levied on livestock Response Feedback: Correct Question 8 0 out of 10 points In his article on the origins of American Strategy in Makers of Modern Strategy, historian Russell Weigley quotes Colonel Naylor in saying which of the following was required to "take the fighting spirit out of a country" and achieve victory in modern warfare? Selected Answer: B. Economic pressure, like that of the Union blockade in the American Civil War Response Feedback: Incorrect. Please review: Reading, Makers of Modern Strategy, pages 441 - 442 Question 9 0 out of 10 points The preponderance of military thought and studies for American soldiers of the early and middle nineteenth century focused on what? Selected Answer: B.

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Offensive maneuver as practiced in Napoleonic warfare Response Feedback: Incorrect. Please review: Reading, Makers of Modern Strategy, pages 413 - 416 Question 10 10 out of 10 points All of the following characterized Sherman's tenure as commanding general of the US Army from 1869 until 1883 except: Selected Answer: A. Led the overall United States effort to rebuild and reincorporate the Southern states into the Union, which was known as Reconstruction. Response Feedback: Correct Question 1 10 out of 10 points Which of the following was another fundamental transformation in Western military affairs that took place in Moltke's lifetime? Selected Answer: C. The emergence of notion of the military man as belonging to a profession. Response Feedback: Correct Question 2 10 out of 10 points In The Dynamics of Military Revolution, what does historian Mark Grimsley say, in line with Clausewitzian theory, is the "Holy Grail of Warfare?" Selected Answer: B. Supremacy Response Feedback: Correct

Question 3 10 out of 10 points All of the following are true about "the days are gone", except: Selected Answer: A. In the aftermath of Napoleon's demise, conservative European statesmen were successful in reconstructing their armies and politics along traditional lines. Response Feedback: Correct Question 4 10 out of 10 points Initially, the North's plan for winning the Civil War included all the following except: Selected Answer: C. Explicitly target slavery in order to destroy the ability of the Confederacy to make war Response Feedback: Correct Question 5 0 out of 10 points General George Washington promoted and conducted of the War of Independence in what manner? Selected Answer: A. In a revolutionary manner, using guerrilla style, hit-and-run tactics. Response Feedback: Incorrect. Please review: Reading, Makers of Modern Strategy, pages 410 - 411 Question 6

10 out of 10 points What can be stated as accurate about both the Union and the Confederacy's ability to field their respective armies? Selected Answer: A. The Union and Confederate War Departments asked their state governors to raise quotas of regiments. Response Feedback: Correct Question 7 10 out of 10 points Which one of these characteristics of war did Helmuth von Moltke write what about in the 1890's? Selected Answer: A. Wars of the present day call for whole nations to arms. Response Feedback: Correct Question 8 10 out of 10 points In his article on the origins of American Strategy in Makers of Modern Strategy, historian Russell Weigley quotes Colonel Naylor in saying which of the following was required to "take the fighting spirit out of a country" and achieve victory in modern warfare? Selected Answer: C. To defeat its main army Response Feedback: Correct Question 9 10 out of 10 points

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The preponderance of military thought and studies for American soldiers of the early and middle nineteenth century focused on what? Selected Answer: C. Engineering, particularly on the value of field fortifications Response Feedback: Correct Question 10 10 out of 10 points American officers' conduct of operations in the 1846-48 war with Mexico relied on what? Selected Answer: C. Common sense and practical experience Response Feedback: Correct

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