13. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 13: Home Front Protest during the Civil War

**Quiz for Document 13.5: Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, Diary (1864)**

Quiz for Document 13.5: Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, Diary (1864)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. Why was Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas wary about Jefferson Davis’s plan to allow slaves to fight in the Confederate forces?

She was afraid that armed slaves might turn against their former masters.

She feared that so many slaves would join up that the institution of slavery would end.

She saw it as an indication that the Confederate forces had become depleted and weak.

She did not think she would be able to maintain her plantation without all her slave men.

2. The descriptions contained within Thomas’s letters suggest that she and the other white members of her community were

increasingly discouraged about the South’s future.

suffering from severe shortages of food and fuel.

more optimistic about the South’s prospects than they had been a year earlier.

losing their faith in God and their respective churches.

3. Which of the following Union military campaigns does Thomas express fear about in her letters?

Grant’s Shiloh campaign

Meade’s campaign at Gettysburg

Sherman’s March to the Sea

Grant’s assault at Cold Harbor

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