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20 Girding for War: The North and the South

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  1. 1Lincoln feared all of the following possible outcomes if secession were to go unchecked EXCEPT that it would:
    1. Araiser questions of how to divide the national debt between the North and the South
    2. Binhibit industrial development
    3. Cmean splitting federal owned territories
    4. Dlead to increased numbers of fugitive slaves
    5. Eentice Europe to possibly seize American territories
  2. 2Why is the exchange at Fort Sumter so important?
    1. AIt is considered the start of the Civil War
    2. BIt was where South Carolina officially seceded
    3. CIt was the first Southern victory of the Civil War
    4. DIt marked an act of Southern aggression against the North
  3. 3In his efforts to retain the border states within the Union, Lincoln focused his efforts primarily on:
    1. AMaryland
    2. BDelaware
    3. CWest Virginia
    4. DKentucky
    5. EMissouri
  4. 4Which of these is NOT why Lincoln initially said that he was not fighting a war to free the slaves?
    1. AHe did not want to alienate the border states that would be vital to his cause
    2. BHe feared he would upset other allied states
    3. CMembers of his family were slaveholders who were on the side of the South
    4. DHis main objective was keeping the Union together
    5. EHe sought to negotiate a peace and was willing to Compromise on the slavery issue to make it happen, if necessary
  5. 5All of he following are true statements about soldiers on both sides of the Civil War EXCEPT:
    1. ANorthern soldiers were more intellectual and practical, whereas Southern soldiers were more emotional
    2. BSouthern soldiers had more difficulty adjusting to military authority than their Northern counterparts
    3. CNorthern troops were more concerned with defending hearth and home.
    4. DSouthern soldiers had the advantage of fighting defensively, whereas Northern soldiers had to attach on unknown terrain
    5. ENorthern soldiers tended not to be the natural fighters that Southerns were.
  6. 6Which of the following was the most serious hardship encountered by soldiers on both sides of the Civil War?
    1. AFood shortages
    2. BUniform shortages
    3. CBoredom
    4. DLack of discipline in the camps
    5. EDisease
  7. 7The South's greatest weakness in the conflict was:
    1. Apoor military leadership from the outset
    2. Bits economy
    3. Cits lack of arms/weaponry
    4. Dits minimal control of the seas
    5. Eits relatively small population
  8. 8What did the South count on most in its bid to win the Civil War?
    1. AForeign intervention
    2. BThe strength of its army
    3. CIts military leadership
    4. DWorld demand for its cotton crops
    5. EIts knowledge of potential battlegrounds
  9. 9The biggest challenge Confederate president Jefferson Davis faced was:
    1. Acreating a currency for his new nation
    2. Bbalancing his roles as military and political leader
    3. Congoing tension between states' rights and the need for a unified central government
    4. Damassing an army
    5. Ehis lack of popularity
  10. 10Facing war, Lincoln played fast and loose with the Constitution in all of the following ways EXCEPT that he:
    1. Adeclared a blockade without congressional approval
    2. Bincreased the size of the army
    3. Cordered a $2 million payout to private citizens aiding the military effort
    4. Dsuspended freedom of the pres by insisting that editors avoid publishing anti-Union articles or editorials
    5. Esuspended the writ of habeas corpus

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Chapter 20; American Pageant
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Created on 31 Dec 2018 · updated on 4 Jan 2019
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