Chapter 155. Reflections on The South at War, Chapter 15

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Correct. The answer is d. The author’s argument in this section of the chapter is that Southerners eagerly volunteered for military service to defend the Confederacy, but the Confederate government’s wartime policies exposed them to severe economic hardships, eroded poor whites’ solidarity with planters, and ultimately undermined the cause.

Incorrect. The answer is d. Southerners eagerly volunteered for military service to defend the Confederacy, but the Confederate government’s wartime policies exposed them to severe economic hardships, eroded poor whites’ solidarity with planters, and ultimately undermined the cause.

Correct. The answer is c. One of the pieces of evidence the author cites to validate his claim that the Civil War’s hardships fell disproportionately on the poor in the South is the “twenty-Negro law,” which made slaveholders with more than 20 slaves exempt from the draft, while nonslaveholding men had no choice but to fight.

Incorrect. The answer is c. One of the pieces of evidence the author cites to validate his claim that the Civil War’s hardships fell disproportionately on the poor in the South is the “twenty-Negro law,” which made slaveholders with more than 20 slaves exempt from the draft, while nonslaveholding men had no choice but to fight.

Correct. The answer is a. To support his argument that the Civil War exacerbated class friction among whites in the South, the author refers to yeomen’s frequent references to the Civil War as “a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.”

Incorrect. The answer is a. To support his argument that the Civil War exacerbated class friction among whites in the South, the author refers to yeomen’s frequent references to the Civil War as “a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.”

Correct. The answer is d. The author cites the upheavals that came with the war—what Lincoln referred to as the war’s “friction and abrasion”—as the cause of the practical destruction of slavery that came with the Civil War.

Incorrect. The answer is d. The author cites the upheavals that came with the war—what Lincoln referred to as the war’s “friction and abrasion”—as the cause of the practical destruction of slavery that came with the Civil War.

Correct. The answer is b. The author cites poor soldiers’ need to return and provide for their families as the reason for the high rates of desertion that plagued the Confederate army in the latter years of the Civil War.

Incorrect. The answer is b. The author cites poor soldiers’ need to return and provide for their families as the reason for the high rates of desertion that plagued the Confederate army in the latter years of the Civil War.

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