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Menace of Secession
1. What were the physical problems with secession that Lincoln referred to in his inaugural address?
2. What other problems would arise with separation?
3. How might the European nations respond?
South Carolina Assails Fort Sumter
4. What were Lincoln’s options with regard to Fort Sumter?
5. Which side started the war and when?
6. How did the attack on Fort Sumter alter Northern attitudes?
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How many volunteers did Lincoln call for?
8. Which four slave states joined the Confederacy once Lincoln called for troops?
9. Where was the Confederate capital moved?
Brothers’ Blood and Border Blood
10. Which slaves states did not secede? What were these called?
11. Why was it so important that these Border States stay with the Union?
12. What methods did Lincoln use to quell anti-Union activities in Maryland? West Virginia? Missouri?
13. How did the Border States affect the Union’s war aims?
14. How did the residents of Oklahoma choose sides?
The Balance of Forces
15. What were the South’s main advantages?
16. What were the South’s main disadvantages?
17. What were the North’s main advantages?
18. What was the North’s main disadvantage?
19. Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
Dethroning the Cotton King
20. Which expected Southern advantage failed to materialize?
21. Why would the British government hesitate to support the Confederacy?
22. What four factors made King Cotton less important to the outcome than had been expected?
The Decisiveness of Diplomacy
23. How did the Trent Affair illustrate Lincoln’s wise diplomacy?
24. How did Britain’s lack of neutrality affect the naval war?
25. What was the significance of the Alabama?
Foreign Flare-ups
26. Which American immigrant group took out their anti-British feelings on Canada?
27. How did the French take advantage of the American Civil War in the western hemisphere?
President Davis Versus President Lincoln
28. What was the fatal weakness in the Confederation Constitution?
29. How did Jefferson Davis’s political skill at keeping the Confederacy united compare with the skill of Lincoln?
Limitations on Wartime Liberties
30. In what ways did Lincoln increase executive power during the war?
31. In what ways did Lincoln violate civil liberties during the war?
32. What prevented Jefferson Davis from exercising such powers as Commander in Chief?
Volunteers and Draftees: North and South
33. How Northern armies were originally manned?
34. What was passed in 1863?
35. Why was the conscription process grossly unfair to the poor?
36. Describe the New York City Draft Riots of 1863.
37. How early was the South forced to resort to conscription laws?
38. What feature of southern conscription favored the planter class?
The Economic Stresses of the War
39. How did the North pay for the war?
40. Describe the Morrill Tariff Act.
41. What were greenbacks?
42. What were Treasury bonds?
43. Describe the National Banking Act.
44. In turn, why did the South have greater difficulty financing the war?
45. What was the rate of inflation in the South as they continued to print Confederate dollars?
The North’s Economic Boom
46. How did the North’s economy change during the war?
47. Which classes in the North benefit from the war?
48. Why was graft more flagrant in the North?
49. How did the war forever alter the clothing industry?
50. Which state experience the first petroleum gushers?
51. How did the war change employment opportunities for women?
A Crushed Cotton Kingdom
52. How did the % of the nation’s wealth change from 1860 to 1870 in the South?
53. What was the overall effect of the war on the South’s economy?
54. Which group in the North triumphed during war?